To make a long story short, I have WinXP and Red Hat 9.0 installed on the same hard drive in my laptop. Previously I had been using the GRUB bootloader to choose my OS, but I had to re-install Windows ...

When Ubuntu changed to Grub 2 a couple of releases ago, it became significantly more difficult to set up multi-boot Linux systems. Most if not all Ubuntu derivatives are also using Grub2, and now the ...

Nearly every computer I own is at least a dual-boot machine, Ubuntu and Windows XP. I have seriously lost track of how many times I have done this.<BR><BR>I always load in Windows first, and then ...

Unless your computer is pretty old, it probably uses UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) to boot. The idea is that a bootloader picks up files from an EFI partition and uses them to start ...

Good or bad, useful or not, implementation of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface and Microsoft’s Secure Boot extension might well foul the fuel driving consumer migration to the Linux desktop.

Operating system maintainers, computer manufacturers, security and virtualization software vendors have worked together over the past few months to coordinate a unified response to a vulnerability ...