[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]

Parted defaults to leaving the first 1 MB of the disk empty these days,
regardless of the cylinder size.  I just tested it by creating a 1 gb
file and having parted mklabel msdos, then mkpart using 0% and 100% as
the start and end positions, and the partition starts at sector 2048
even though the sector count is 32.

Can you describe how to reproduce the results you describe with parted?


** Changed in: parted (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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

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