[ale] Central Mtg. Presentations for Aug., Sept., Oct.

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 18:16 -0400, Stephen R. Blevins wrote:
> As one requesting this, I would like to see what files I have to
> update, 
> and what commands I now have to execute if I choose to customize my 
> installation.  Updating menu.lst or grub.conf was simple.  Now it's 
> different.  Thank you. 

You can have a static configuration for GRUB 2 as well, it just depends
on how the distribution chooses to implement GRUB 2.  Ubuntu uses a pile
of scripts, for example, that will update the GRUB configuration,
discovering all of the kernels that you have installed and so forth.
This isn't unlike the way that Ubuntu implemented things with GRUB 1,
though it is a bit more complex.

The real nifty thing is that you can use GRUB 2 directly on a CD/DVD
without going through a great deal of effort.  It is *seriously* easy to
create a bootable CD using GRUB and a kernel and stuff & things on it.
If you were to write a program that booted from CD to control the entire
system (think a custom operating system kernel, or a Linux kernel that
ran a highly customized userland) you could do so as soon as you have
the filesystem tree ready to burn.  It's pretty much that easy.

	--- Mike