Comment 6 for bug 40186

Okay, the question being asked is indeed partman-auto/automatically_partition

However, now we touch upon a major usability bug - since partman-auto/automatically_partition is a Select, the only working options available are of the format "Erase entire disk: SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - xx.yGB DRIVELABEL" - meaning I need a new ISO with a new preseed file for every potential different hard disk model number that hardware vendors provide - rather than the somewhat more sensible option of "use the first SCSI/SATA drive please". I'd say it was imperative that partman-auto/disk or similar be read, understood, and suppress the interactive partman-auto/automatically_partition question.

I'm also now having an issue that I'm trying to work around - if I preseed "d-i partman-auto/automatically_partition select Erase entire disk: SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 8.6GB VMware, VMware Virtual S", then I bypass the message that this bug is complaining about - but get an error straight afterwards, complaining that no root device is found (see attached image)