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Wait on the erase modal's sentence, not on any modal's footer `enter confirm` is what every modal's footer reads, so matching it would be satisfied by a different modal appearing. On this screen the next keystroke erases a disk, so the wait names the thing it is waiting for.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: Max Johnson <me@maxj.phd> · 2026-08-26 16:12 UTC

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Commit: 1c2515e0fd9cb3c70f2503500ed20d0a3508e427

Parent: 3cd023a

1 file changed, +4 insertions, -1 deletion

M build/vmtest/install_drive.py +4 -1

			@@ -184,7 +184,10 @@
184	184		# `enter install` and means it two keystrokes from now.
185	185		s.wait_for(r"step 6 of 6", 30)
186	186		s.send(ENTER)
187		-	s.wait_for(r"(?i)erase\|confirm", 30)
	187	+	# The modal's own sentence, not its footer. `enter confirm` is what any
	188	+	# modal's footer reads, so waiting on that would also be satisfied by a
	189	+	# different one — and on this screen the next Enter erases a disk.
	190	+	s.wait_for(r"Erase .* and install Alloy", 30)
188	191		s.send(ENTER)
189	192
190	193