Grub2, the new boot menu installed by default with Ubuntu 9.10, can still look pretty old-school ugly if your tastes don't run with white terminal text on black. You can, however, customize its ...

Written by J.A. Watson, Contributor Nov. 19, 2009 at 1:21 a.m. PT I got some good news in a comment over on "href="http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/blogger/J.A ...

Understanding the intricacies of the Linux boot process and the GRUB bootloader configuration is essential for system administrators, developers, and Linux enthusiasts who want to harness the full ...

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I usually never post in this forum.<br><br>I have/had a dual boot machine consisting of Windows XP (my main OS), and a 10GB partition running Ubuntu ...

GRUB: it's neither larva, fast food nor the loveliest of acronyms in the GNU herd of free software. Rather, GRUB is the GNU GRand Unified Bootloader. And, it is truly the greatest loader for booting ...

Linux distros handle most GRUB installations automatically. GRUB is easy to configure when necessary. Excellent documentation, both from the GRUB project and various Linux distribution projects, ...

Planning ahead to multi-boot Windows and Linux distributions is the way to do it, but what if you end up erasing your boot menu and losing access to Linux? The FOSSwire blog has you covered. The ...

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 ...

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 ...