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CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide

By : Philip Inshanally
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CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide

By: Philip Inshanally

Overview of this book

The Linux+ certification provides a broad awareness of Linux operating systems, while giving professionals an upper hand in the IT industry. With this certification, you’ll be equipped with the all-important knowledge of installation, operation, administration, and troubleshooting services. This CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide will give you an overview of the system architecture. You’ll understand how to install and uninstall Linux distributions, followed by working with various package managers. You’ll then move on to manipulating files and processes at the command-line interface (CLI) and creating, monitoring, killing, restarting, and modifying processes. As you progress, you’ll be equipped to work with display managers and learn how you can create, modify, and remove user accounts and groups, as well as understand how to automate tasks. The last set of chapters will help you configure dates and set up local and remote system logging. In addition to this, you’ll explore different internet protocols, and delve into network configuration, security administration, Shell scripting, and SQL management. By the end of this book, you’ll not only have got to grips with all the modules you need to study for the LX0-103 and LX0-104 certification exams, but you’ll also be able to test your understanding with practice questions and mock exams.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Mock Exam - 1
20
Mock Exam - 2

GRUB and GRUB2

Now we'll switch gears and discuss the boot managers whose jobs are to present the boot menu, from which the user has the options to select which operating system/Linux kernel to load or edit. First, we will focus on GRUB and then move on to GRUB2.

GRUB

GRUB stands for Grand Unified Bootloader. GRUB is primarily used for booting Linux distributions. However, GRUB can work with other boot loaders. A common use-case scenario is for dual booting with a Microsoft operating system: it does this by doing a hand-off to the Windows bootloader for Microsoft operating systems.

GRUB uses the /boot/grub/grub.conf file. Sometimes you will see /boot/grub/menu.lst, but this file is simply a symbolic link to /boot/grub...