Because of my multi-boot setup, and the fact that I am more or less continually reloading one distribution or another, I've had to look a bit deeper into setting up and configuring GRUB recently. Here ...

I have win xp on my 80gb HD and Linux on my 30gb HD. I just got a new system and will be transferring the 80gb HD to the new system leaving the 30gb on the old system as a linux only pc. First, is ...

The whole purpose of dual-booting is to choose which OS you want to boot into. Traditionally, this is done in a clunky way, ...

Hi.. I'm currently back on macOS but ran Ubuntu 20.04 on my iMac for ~4 months exclusively. As in no macOS install at all. Purely Ubuntu. At least once a month, my boot disk would revert to read only.

A new zero-day vulnerability was discovered for the Grub bootloader that allows attackers to bypass Grub password authentication. A security notice released by researchers Hector Marco & Ismael Ripoll ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Canonical has reversed its decision to drop Ubuntu's GRUB 2 bootloader in favor of EFILinux on ...

Obviously, this isn’t ideal. This bug will only impact some of the most secured systems. If you use GRUB’s password feature to lock down your bootloader, you’ll want to install the security updates ...