Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Canonical has reversed its decision to drop Ubuntu's GRUB 2 bootloader in favor of EFILinux on ...

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, ...

Ok, I'm currently running RH 7.1 and Windows 2000. However, very shortly I will be upgrading to winXP and RH 7.2. With my current setup I was forced to install LILO to my Linux harddrive, since it ...

Obviously, this isn’t ideal. This bug will only impact some of the most secured systems. If you use GRUB’s password feature to lock down your bootloader, you’ll want to install the security updates ...

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 ...

Long story short I installed Fedora Core 1 with help of a friend (Thanks Wyck!) and then my hard drive went loud and very high pitched. Fedora is installed on this loud hard drive. Now I dual boot ...

Windows Update Does Not Like GRUB If you are running a multi-boot configuration with Windows and Linux, and using GRUB as the bootloader, you may be headed for trouble. I first ran into this problem ...