[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)

[Kees Cook]

The problem is that parted treats local files (as used by vmbuilder)
differently from "actual" disk files, and changes the sector size
accordingly (without an option to change it). As a result, the partition
start locations are too small for grub2 to install. I had originally
reproduced this by using vmbuilder to install Ubuntu, and then
attempting to update to grub2, which would fail, since there wasn't
enough room.

My previously attached hack/work-around for vmbuilder was to skip a
sector when building the first partition.

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

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Title:
  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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