When creating the partition table and partition using fdisk I tried altering the partition (set the boot flag) with parted. It's still crashing but the boot flag is set.
$ sudo parted /dev/vg0/test GNU Parted 2.3 Using /dev/dm-15 Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) set 1 boot on device-mapper: deps ioctl failed: No such device or address You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do: Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data. Help us to fix this bug by doing the following: Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking the last version of GNU Parted that you can find at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/ Please check this version prior to bug reporting. If this has not been fixed yet or if you don't know how to check, please visit the GNU Parted website: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted for further information. Your report should contain the version of this release (2.3) along with the error message below, the output of parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print and the following history of commands you entered. Also include any additional information about your setup you consider important. Command History: set 1 boot on Error: SEGV_MAPERR (Address not mapped to object) Backtrace has 12 calls on stack: 12: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x2e) [0x7f57a923f89e] 11: parted() [0x40badf] 10: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x33d80) [0x7f57a8a4ad80] 9: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x17ac1) [0x7f57a9248ac1] 8: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x1b60b) [0x7f57a924c60b] 7: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_commit_to_os+0x4b) [0x7f57a924358b] 6: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_commit+0x48) [0x7f57a9243718] 5: parted() [0x405500] 4: parted(interactive_mode+0xf3) [0x40dab3] 3: parted(main+0x146f) [0x40aa9f] 2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xff) [0x7f57a8a35eff] 1: parted() [0x404fa9] You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do: Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data. Help us to fix this bug by doing the following: Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking the last version of GNU Parted that you can find at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/ Please check this version prior to bug reporting. If this has not been fixed yet or if you don't know how to check, please visit the GNU Parted website: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted for further information. Your report should contain the version of this release (2.3) along with the error message below, the output of parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print and the following history of commands you entered. Also include any additional information about your setup you consider important. Assertion (0) at ../../parted/ui.c:356 in function sa_sigsegv_handler() failed. $ sudo parted /dev/vg0/test unit co print unit s print Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm) Disk /dev/dm-15: 8590MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 8590MB 8589MB primary ext4 boot Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm) Disk /dev/dm-15: 16777216s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 2048s 16777215s 16775168s primary ext4 boot -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/666066 Title: parted crashes when creating a partition on a lvm2 volume To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/+bug/666066/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs