[kwlug-disc] possible presentation ideas

[Ron Singh]

I like the idea of a full session dedicated to these 2 parts -- I have
resorted to a herd of HDDs to do my distro-hopping(I prefer bare-metal
installs) as I had 2 bad experiences in the past with GRUB getting
clobbered some.

I lack the knowledge to know how to deal with GRUB issues,  so some
in-depth coverage would certainly be appreciated by me.

An intro to EFI and Grub is quite fine too as I am sure I will leave the
meet know a whack more than I did coming in.
(Aargh, I just realized I broke the reading flow here, someone needs to
beat my sorry a$$ for not getting with it. )


Thanks,

Ron Singh



On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 8:35 AM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 04:50:56AM -0500, Chris Irwin wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 09:45:31PM -0500, tomg at sentex.ca wrote:
> > >How GRUB works and what the difference between installing it
> > >and updating it is, especially, differences from LILO or rEFInd.
> > >
> > >How (U)EFI works.
> > >
> > >How GUID partition tables work on Linux.
> >
> > I think UEFI & GPT would go well together, as they are related to each
> > other.
> >
> > I've spent enough time (both privately and professionally) mucking about
> > with disks, partitions, bios and uefi bootloaders that I can take on
> these
> > topics.
> >
> > Probably a half-session for the basics of what and how (and some
> efibootmgr
> > fun), or a whole-session for more depth (how it got to be like this,
> > touching on secure boot, and brief notes on GRUB and rEFInd).
> >
> > That said, while I find it fascinating and useful, a full night of
> > partitions and bootloaders might be too much...
>
> Deal. March is open. If you want to wait until the danger of snow has
> passed then that is okay too. Let me know.
>
> We have been trying to schedule two presentations per night, so a
> half-session is probably more appropriate. But both aspects of this
> (how to use it and how it got this way) seem like interesting
> presentations.
>
>
> - Paul
>
>
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