On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 04:14:34PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > On 2017-01-26, Stefan Sperling <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Summary: > >> I suggest that, for the "Which disk is your root disk?"'s question in the > >> installer, a logic should be added so that if a softraid has been set up, > >> then it should be used as default option (rather than the name of the first > >> physical disk available in the system, as is the case currently, and which > >> is the healthy default for all other use cases). > > > > This has already been fixed: > > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=147298414007674&w=2 > > Well, that was partially reverted a week later: > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=147380197222029&w=2 > > | "Make disk selection dumb again", or at least make the change less > | intrusive. Default to the first available disk, skipping to the next > | (and so on), should the selected one be determined unsuitable for the > | install or upgrade taking place.
The behaviour I remember includes this second commit. It selects the wrong disk the first time through, but just hitting enter is enough to get the right one selected. I did not remember that there were two commits which contributed to this.

