Call for testing and comment: Make the installer prefer >1G disks
by from OpenBSD Journal on (#6X0RX)
You can tell it's right after a release is cut when new ideas are fielded in patches to tech@.One such small but potentially important change that is being aired now is achangeto the installer to suggest the larger one when several disks are available. Klemens Nanni (kn@) describes the motivation for the change as
[...] whenever install media, small USB sticks or softraid(4) keydisks attachbefore you actual disk, defaulting to sd0 is most certainly not what you want.An easy rule of thumb that works great for me is to reshuffle the list of validroot disks such that small ones come last.
The message with the patch reads:
List: openbsd-techSubject: installer: default root disk: prefer those bigger than 1GFrom: Klemens Nanni <kn () openbsd ! org>Date: 2025-05-01 15:41:25Now we show all valid root disks and pick the first one, i.e. thealphanumerically lowest value, as default: