I recently built a new computer, and I have 2 hard drives installed, one for win7 and one for ubuntu.<BR><BR>I installed win7 first on one drive, then I unplugged the power to that drive and installed ...

Are you a dual-booter running a Linux-Windows or even a Linux-Linux dual-boot system? Have you ever lost booting access to one of your OSes or want to be prepared for if and when that happens? If yes, ...

Start-up problems. That moment when – having expected yourself to be getting on with your day's work or entertainment – you find yourself staring at a cryptic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last year I worked on a project to add an OEM-style rescue partition to a computer. Where most OEM installs have a custom program that just rewrites an install image over the top of the partition, in ...