First impressions with F20-Beta

Thu Oct 3 23:20:52 UTC 2013

On 2013-10-03 13:46 (GMT-0600) Chris Murphy composed:

> Joachim Backes wrote:

>> ...own partitioning...

>> Partition Table for /dev/sda

>>         ---Starting----      ----Ending-----    Start     Number of
>> # Flags Head Sect  Cyl   ID  Head Sect  Cyl     Sector    Sectors
>> -- ----- ---- ---- ----- ---- ---- ---- ----- ----------- -----------
>> 1  0x00   32   33     0 0x83  250   63  1019        2048    16384000
>> 2  0x00  251    1  1019 0x83  241   55  1274    16386048     4096000
>> 3  0x00  241   56  1274 0x82  232   47  1529    20482048     4096000
>> 4  0x00    0    0     0 0x00    0    0     0           0           0

> I'm not familiar with this output. I don't see partition type codes. If
> that's supposed to be the first column, they're all wrong. And none are
> marked bootable either (although with GRUB2 boot.img installed in the MBR
> bootstrap region that should not matter).

It does make me wonder what tool created "own partitioning", but the types 
are right there in the unfamiliarly located ID column. The bootable flag is 
only relevant to legacy compatible MBR code, which AFAIK no Grub, or Lilo or 
Syslinux, has ever been.
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