I have a process that our company built that has worked for over a year which is used to auto-install Kali boxes. For some reason, there's something that's been broken in the last month or two that makes it unable to automatically set up on a SATA drive, although NVME's still work fine. I get the error: gave up on waiting for root file system device, telling me /dev/sdb1 doesn't exist.

These are the partman settings I have in place that have always worked. Inexplicably, they don't on SATA drives now.

d-i partman-auto/method string regular
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
d-i partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true
d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic
d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true

Note: This could also be a difference in how Kali is treating Legacy Bios versus UEFI. I'm unsure.

Please let me know what troubleshooting or logging I can pull for more information.

Thanks!

-Jim