To make a long story short, I have WinXP and Red Hat 9.0 installed on the same hard drive in my laptop. Previously I had been using the GRUB bootloader to choose my OS, but I had to re-install Windows ...

Nearly every computer I own is at least a dual-boot machine, Ubuntu and Windows XP. I have seriously lost track of how many times I have done this. I always load in Windows first, and then Linux ...

When Ubuntu changed to Grub 2 a couple of releases ago, it became significantly more difficult to set up multi-boot Linux systems. Most if not all Ubuntu derivatives are also using Grub2, and now 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 ...

The Linux boot process can be easily password protected to prevent just anyone from booting your server. Jack Wallen demonstrates on Ubuntu Server. If you use Linux in your data center, on your ...