[Bug 556167] Re: vmbuilder uses parted to create disk images, which leads to broken sector counts (cannot use grub2 on disk images created by vmbuilder/parted)

[Phillip Susi]

The bios geometry just shouldn't matter.  Sure, it is odd that it uses a
different geometry for an image file than a disk, but whether the
nonsensical geometry specifies 63 or 32 or 3 sectors per track,
partitions are supposed to have a 1mb alignment these days.  This is
what you get if you specify the start position as 0%, so it doesn't make
sense for the free space check to advertise a lower position as a valid
start, especially when you get a warning exception when you try to use
it, which I guess is ignored by vmbuilder.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Server Team, which is subscribed to vm-builder in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/556167

Title:
  vmbuilder uses parted to create disk images, which leads to broken
  sector counts (cannot use grub2 on disk images created by
  vmbuilder/parted)

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/+bug/556167/+subscriptions