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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Okay, I was silly. I decided to reformat one of my secondary hard drives and erase the window's partitions and install Suse 9 Pro onto it. I had 8.0 pro, didn't recognize my HPT controller so I ...

2025-09-08 09:01 Intel Expands APO Game Support for Arrow Lake CPUs with Up to 14% FPS Gains ...

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 ...