Bug#791546: cloud-initramfs-growroot: Unsupported use of sfdisk command

[Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org>]

Package: cloud-initramfs-growroot
Version: 0.18.debian5
Severity: normal

When using

  cloud-init (0.7.6~bzr976-4)
  cloud-utils (0.27-1)
  cloud-initramfs-growroot (0.18.debian5)

(all from sid), during initramfs stage the sfdisk usage is printed

  [..]
  For more details see sfdisk(8)

followed by error

  FAILED: failed to get CHS from /dev/sda

The next thing I see is the log-in prompt.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash