I have two hard drives on my primary ide channel. During rh 7.3 setup I told it to install the boot loader on the second hard drive. When I tell my bios to boot from the second hard drive it hangs ...

Rolling back the Linux kernel can save the day when a bad update breaks your system. It should be done carefully, with backups and verification. Use it to regain a stable state, then address the root ...

I've been trying to get Grub successfully dual booting between my Windows and Linux (several distros have been tried, all with different grub versions) installs for quite a while, since I upgraded to ...

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 ...

Question: I recently had to reinstall Windows on my dual boot system and now Linux no longer boots. Rather than booting to the grub boot manager it now boots directly into Windows. How do I recover my ...

Quite a few boot managers are available. Of course, Linux uses LILO, FreeBSD installs BootEasy, and you can also use OS-BS, payware like System Commander and other boot managers that ship with ...

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 ...

Today I have a tale of mystery, of horror, and of hope. The allure of a newer kernel and packages was too much to resist, so I found myself upgrading to Fedora 30. All the packages had downloaded, all ...

Linux only: The GRUB boot-selector tool has made dual-booting Linux and other systems easy, but changing how your boot menu looks requires digging through text files and praying you don't make a ...

According to user reports following this month's Patch Tuesday, the August 2024 Windows security updates are breaking dual boot on some Linux systems with Secure Boot enabled. This issue is caused by ...

Even with today's fast, multi-core processors and a large amount of system RAM, waiting for a Linux computer to boot can be a slow and tedious process. Though you may never get your Ubuntu Linux PC to ...