On many Linux systems the boot process sees the usual BIOS screen, followed by Grub. The Grand Unified Bootloader (Grub) takes over from our BIOS and offers the user a choice of OS options and kernel ...

Last year I worked on a project to add an OEM-style rescue partition to a computer. Where most OEM installs have a custom program that just rewrites an install image over the top of the partition, in ...

In the first article of this series, I explained the fundamentals behind the Libreboot free software BIOS project and why you might want to replace your BIOS with it. I followed up by describing how ...

Compiled a new kernel from source on a stock RedHat 7.3 system and I can't get grub to show the new kernel as an option. Here is my /boot/grub/grub.conf file:<BR><BR ...

Last night I had a problem with booting linux. I have both WinXp and RedHat Linux 8.0 on my home PC. They both were working fine before that. My HD partitions layout is:<BR>hd0,0 - Primary - NTFS- ...

Windows 8 PCs will come with Microsoft's UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot. This "feature" will make it much harder to boot Linux or other operating systems. Canonical, Ubuntu ...