I installed 20betaRC5 the night it was announced, without installing
bootloader, since stealing my MBR is not acceptable. After a bunch of boots
and general housekeeping and testing and finding os-prober, grubby,
grub2-tools and grub2 installed, I proceeded to try to setup Grub2 on /.
grub2-install --force /dev/sda8 reported no errors. Chainloading from the
primary bootloader succeeds in reaching only a grub> prompt, as expected.
Next I wanted to do grub2-mkconfig, but there was no /etc/default/grub.
Shouldn't some already installed package (grub2-tools or os-prober?) have
already created one, if not usable, a skeleton of some kind? Is it normal in
multiboot installations to wind up with an /etc/default/grub with no more
than GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true in it?
Should I install syslinux-extlinux instead, since chainloading to F20 is how
it will normally be started?
I did a minimal install, then added various KDE and X bits to keep it
minimalist. This left multi-user.target as default. After rebooting after
installing KDM and changing target to graphical, first try to use login
manager to reboot failed to do anything but close X down, leaving me at a
login prompt. I logged in only to run shutdown -r. It worked, but only after
a multi minute delay. After rebooting more, it's still not rebooting from the
login screen, and delaying after shutdown -r. Turn off from login screen
works normally.
According to the system display's specifications, its native mode is
1440x900, but X started in 1280x1024, so needed be forced via xrandr or
kscreen to 1440x900 after session start. KDE remembers 1440x900, but only
after a delay, during which the desktop gets painted in sections indicating
it's initially in 1280x1024 as used by KDM, before it reshuffles things into
a proper 1440x900 painting.
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