dell-recovery shows no error when the target disk space is insufficient
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Dell Recovery |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
OEM Priority Project |
New
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Wishlist
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cktenn |
Bug Description
When fresh installing with OS recovery media, if users by chance select a target disk with small capacity that is not enough to install the system and create a recovery partition, the installation process will end up with an error that gives insufficient information for what went wrong.
In the case of a notebook with a 1TB HDD and a 16GB NVME, the NVME is not designed for installing OS, but users may select it from the target disk menu and have an error message pops up in the end:
"Installed linux-firmware package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1"
Which is hard to figure out the root cause is insufficient disk space.
Dell-recovery should prevent users from choosing it by hiding it or showing a warning message.
upstream bug tracking:
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Changed in oem-priority: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
assignee: | nobody → Che Cheng (cktenn) |
description: | updated |
16GB NVME isn't big enough for installing OS? This is surprising to me. If this is the case, there are two solutions I see:
1) perhaps we should just not show disks < 32GB NVME with dell-recovery UX.
2) Sort the list and pick the biggest disk by default.