diff --git a/build_gpt.sh b/build_gpt.sh
index daef59e321..8247f65c68 100755
--- a/build_gpt.sh
+++ b/build_gpt.sh
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ fi
 
 # Create the GPT. This has the side-effect of setting some global vars
 # describing the partition table entries (see the comments in the source).
-install_gpt $OUTDEV $ROOTFS_IMG $KERNEL_IMG $STATEFUL_IMG $PMBRCODE $ESP_IMG \
+install_gpt $OUTDEV $ROOTFS_IMG $STATEFUL_IMG $PMBRCODE $ESP_IMG \
     false $FLAGS_rootfs_partition_size
 
 if [[ "$ARCH" = "arm" ]]; then
diff --git a/image_to_vm.sh b/image_to_vm.sh
index 48b52498ae..ac8f648c99 100755
--- a/image_to_vm.sh
+++ b/image_to_vm.sh
@@ -166,7 +166,6 @@ else
     sudo losetup -d "${STATEFUL_LOOP_DEV}"
   fi
 fi
-TEMP_KERN="${TEMP_DIR}"/part_2
 TEMP_PMBR="${TEMP_DIR}"/pmbr
 dd if="${SRC_IMAGE}" of="${TEMP_PMBR}" bs=512 count=1
 
@@ -230,7 +229,7 @@ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of="${TEMP_IMG}" bs=1 count=1 \
   seek=$((${FLAGS_vdisk_size} * 1024 * 1024 - 1))
 
 # Set up the partition table
-install_gpt "${TEMP_IMG}" "${TEMP_ROOTFS}" "${TEMP_KERN}" "${TEMP_STATE}" \
+install_gpt "${TEMP_IMG}" "${TEMP_ROOTFS}" "${TEMP_STATE}" \
   "${TEMP_PMBR}" "${TEMP_ESP}" false ${FLAGS_rootfs_partition_size}
 # Copy into the partition parts of the file
 dd if="${TEMP_ROOTFS}" of="${TEMP_IMG}" conv=notrunc bs=512 \