Corrected some minor modifications mentioned in #595 as well as merged in latest changes from master. For future PR's do create a patch-branch for upstream patches to avoid changes to your local repo.

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/archinstall/lib/disk.py b/archinstall/lib/disk.py
index 954dc732..415f45e6 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/disk.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/disk.py
@@ -523,13 +523,17 @@ class Filesystem:
 			self.blockdevice.partition[0].allow_formatting = True
 			self.blockdevice.partition[1].allow_formatting = True
 		else:
-			self.add_partition('primary', start='1MiB', end='513MiB', partition_format='ext2')
+			if not self.parted_mklabel(self.blockdevice.device, "msdos"):
+				raise KeyError(f"Could not create a MSDOS label on {self}")
+
+			self.add_partition('primary', start='1MiB', end='513MiB', partition_format='ext4')
 			self.set(0, 'boot on')
 			self.add_partition('primary', start='513MiB', end='100%')
 
-			self.blockdevice.partition[0].filesystem = 'ext2'
+			self.blockdevice.partition[0].filesystem = 'ext4' # TODO: Up for debate weither or not this should be user-supplied: https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/pull/595/files
 			self.blockdevice.partition[1].filesystem = root_filesystem_type
 
+			log(f"Set the boot partition {self.blockdevice.partition[0]} to use filesystem {'ext4'}.", level=logging.DEBUG)
 			log(f"Set the root partition {self.blockdevice.partition[1]} to use filesystem {root_filesystem_type}.", level=logging.DEBUG)
 
 			self.blockdevice.partition[0].target_mountpoint = '/boot'
@@ -552,11 +556,9 @@ class Filesystem:
 
 		if partitioning:
 			start_wait = time.time()
-			while previous_partitions == self.blockdevice.partitions:
-				time.sleep(0.025)  # Let the new partition come up in the kernel
-				if time.time() - start_wait > 10:
-					raise DiskError(f"New partition never showed up after adding new partition on {self} (timeout 10 seconds).")
-
+			time.sleep(0.025)  # Let the new partition come up in the kernel
+			if time.time() - start_wait > 20:
+				raise DiskError(f"New partition never showed up after adding new partition on {self} (timeout 10 seconds).")
 			return True
 
 	def set_name(self, partition: int, name: str):
diff --git a/archinstall/lib/user_interaction.py b/archinstall/lib/user_interaction.py
index 3c1ba04f..44dabbe6 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/user_interaction.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/user_interaction.py
@@ -710,7 +710,8 @@ def select_driver(options=AVAILABLE_GFX_DRIVERS):
 		if has_nvidia_graphics():
 			print('For the best compatibility with your Nvidia hardware, you may want to use the Nvidia proprietary driver.')
 
-		arguments['gfx_driver'] = generic_select(drivers, input_text="Select a graphics driver or leave blank to install all open-source drivers: ")
+		if not arguments.get('gfx_driver', None):
+			arguments['gfx_driver'] = generic_select(drivers, input_text="Select a graphics driver or leave blank to install all open-source drivers: ")
 		
 		if arguments.get('gfx_driver', None) is None:
 			arguments['gfx_driver'] = "All open-source (default)"