Exploration of Syslinux and Grub2
•1 min read•Event: February 5, 2013•4 Market Square SW, Knoxville, TN 37902, USA
About the Speaker
High Performance System Administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Matthew Gyurgyik is a high performance system administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is particularly interested in the boot processes of Linux systems. Matthew has contributed patches to the Arch Linux Installer adding Syslinux support. In his free time, Matthew enjoys hiking and hanging out with friends.
Syslinux and Grub2 are two of the most popular bootloaders (a small piece of software that is responsible for loading the operating system) used by the Linux community. In this talk we will compare feature sets, explore the parts of the bootloader, and look at atypical installations.