Excerpts from Gregory Haynes's message of 2016-06-20 17:24:28 -0500: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016, at 03:52 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: > > Hi dib-gurus, > > > > I'm trying to build a simple ubuntu VM image on a local Gigabyte BRIX > > with a AMD A8-5557M APU with Ubuntu 16.04 installed and getting an odd > > error. Hoping someone has some ideas... > > > > The command I am running is: > > > > disk-image-create -o /tmp/ubuntu.qcow2 --image-size=10 ubuntu vm > > > > Everything goes smoothly until trying to write the MBR, at which point I > > get the following error: > > > > + /usr/sbin/grub-install '--modules=biosdisk part_msdos' > > --target=i386-pc /dev/loop0 > > Installing for i386-pc platform. > > /usr/sbin/grub-install: warning: this msdos-style partition label has no > > post-MBR gap; embedding won't be possible. > > /usr/sbin/grub-install: error: embedding is not possible, but this is > > required for cross-disk install. > > /dev/loop0: [0047]:3 (/tmp/image.hk8wiFJe/image.raw) > > > > Anybody got any ideas? > > > > Thanks in advance! > > -jay > > Hey Jay, > > I just tried to reproduce this on my 14.04 box and wasn't able to so I > am betting there's some kind of new bug with us on 16.04. Do you get the > same error if you run without --image-size=10? Last time we had an issue > like this a new grub version changed the default behavior, so I'd > suspect something along those lines. > > I am trying out a new run on a 16.04 box but its going to be a bit > before the cloud image downloads (cloud-image.ubuntu.com is pretty > slow)...
I just completed a run on 16.04, so it's not that. I wonder if it might be sensitive to disk geometry accidentally. __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev