On paper, dual-booting Windows and a Linux install of your choice seems like you're getting the best of both worlds. For months, I did exactly that in order to see what it would be like to daily drive ...

I gave Ubuntu 7.10 AMD64 a fair try on my workstation mainly as a curiosity, and while it was somewhat usable (and Compiz Fusion was very nice and relatively bug-free) there were too many issues for ...

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 ...

Partitioning your hard drive is part of the process and could affect your current data. Make sure to back up your system completely before you begin. Depending on the arrangement, you may need to ...

What do you do when you need to choose an OS at boot but aren’t physically near your machine? [Dakhnod]’s inventive solution is a mix of GRUB, Wake-on-LAN (WOL), and a lightweight ESP8266 running a ...

Editor's note: This article is part of a series on Linux boot problems. Read the following articles to recover Linux with Knoppix or troubleshoot Linux boot problems. GRUB is a necessary component to ...