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 ...

You don't need to reinstall your whole operating system just because you forgot your Linux login. It's actually pretty easy ...

I recently lost one of my hard drives. This isn't a bad thing because it held my disused XP install, however it's not a good thing either because I lost the MBR on which grub lives. The rest of my ...

March 3, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google So you've decided to give Linux a shot, and you've found a distribution that suits you. But how do you actually ...

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 ...

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 ...