The installer now prefers disks over 1GB
by from OpenBSD Journal on (#6X32R)
Klemens Nanni (kn@) hascommittedthe his proposed change[Seeprevious article]such that theOpenBSD installer now prefers disks over 1GBwhen prompting for the root disk.The commit message explains the change:
CVSROOT:/cvsModule name:srcChanges by:kn@cvs.openbsd.org2025/05/04 06:32:41Modified files:distrib/miniroot: install.sub Log message:Prefer disks bigger than 1G as default root disk on install-current picks the alphanumerically first disk as default, which isn't thebeset choice if install media, softraid(4) key disks or small external mediaattaches before the disk one intends to use.