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Some MSI monitors prevent installation #319

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When trying to install pop os on a system with a MSI widescreen monitor the installer crashes after selecting clean install.

Investigation shows that the monutor expose a small drive on /dev/sdb (evidently used by the internal kvm switch) and the installer attempts to access this, gets an error and dies even though there is a perfectly usable 4Gb nvme disk installed.

The disk utility shows a drive labelled 'MSI Optix Driver' of size 23kB in the disks utility.

Thr kernel logs show something like:

Buffer I/O Error on dev sdb logical block 0 async read
unaligned partial completion

There is no method of disabling the presence of this drive.

The installer should not crash in this case but proceed to a workable nvme drive/

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