Truths about dual booting I learned the hard way.

Because of an upcoming job interview (yes, I am still looking, unsuccessfully), I wanted to set up a system with openSolaris and perhaps CentOS. As long as I was doing that, I decided to set up a few ...

In the realm of computing, the choice between operating systems often feels like a crossroads. Each path—Windows with its widespread application support and user-friendly interface, and Linux with its ...

I've gotten several comments and questions pertaining to my GRUB posting last week. The most common question was about graphical boot configuration but there were also one or two others, so I'm going ...

The PinePhone is designed to make distro hopping easy. Whether you order a model that comes with Ubuntu Touch, postmarketOS, Manjaro, or KDE Neon pre-installed, the phone is designed to boot first ...

i currently have mandrake 7.1 installed and winxp. im using the graphical LILO boot loader. my question is, can boot up winxp, load partition magic, delete the linux partition and have winxp boot ...

Microsoft has finally fixed a nine-month old bug that would not let Windows 11 PCs dual boot with Linux. It is known that Patch Tuesday updates can often lead to big issues and something just like ...

I had MS DOS 6.22 running fine in a multi-boot set up with Win98, WinXP Home, and Red Hat 7.3 Linux. Somehow, after upgrading 98 to 98SE I lost the choice at Win98 boot to chose the previous OS. The ...

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 ...