On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:16:29AM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:08:30AM +0100, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> > Hello misc@!
> > 
> > I just wanted to share a problem and a solution that I encountered.  Just
> > posting to maybe help someone else in the future, and perhaps a developer
> > feels that improving a particular error message could be important enough.
> > 
> > My goal was to create an installation with a fully encrypted hard drive
> > using a keydisk, and at first reboot into the installed system I got this:
> > 
> >     Booting from hard disk...
> >     Using drive 0, partition 3.
> >     Loading......
> >     probing: pc0 com0 com1 mem[638K 3582M 496M a20=on]
> >     disk: hd0+ hd1+ hd2 sr0*
> >     >> OpenBSD/amd64 BOOT 3.33
> >     unknown KDF type 2
> >     open(sr0a:/etc/boot.conf): Operation not permitted
> >     boot>
> > 
> > The error message "unknown KDF type 2" is the one that maybe could
> > be improved...
> 
> This error message has already been improved in -current by sunil@ in r1.3 of
> http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/lib/libsa/softraid.c
> The message now says ""keydisk not found".

Excellent!

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/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB

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