First impressions with F20-Beta

[Chris Murphy]

On Oct 3, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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. 

Doh! That's right.

Double doh, I might be having a similar problem. Now that I've read the subject, and this applies to beta TC1 and not alpha, I just tried booting vbox with beta KDE and while I did get syslinux, I have a black screen after that.


Chris Murphy