On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:26:30AM +0100, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 16:40 -0700, Barry Grumbine wrote: > > Available disks are: sd0 sd1 sd2 > > Which one is the root disk? (or 'done') [sd0] > > > > At this point I usually say "oh crap", hit ^c, and go read the dmesg > > or `disklabel sd1` to make sure I pick the right disk. > > That's interesting, as for me bsd.rd only creates sd0, so I have to find > the right sdN in dmesg and then "cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV sdN" if I want to > install OS there... >
That strikes me as an interesting error. The install process is supposed to create any device needed when you select a disk. i.e. the 'makedev $resp || exit' line at the end of install.sub. These days the script even automatically adjusts the list of disks when devices are plugged in or removed. Can you provide more details/confirmation of the need to manually create devices on 5.1 or -current? .... Ken
