I just bought a Sony Vaio Notebook, and I was trying to set up a dual-boot system with Windows XP and Red Hat Linux 7.0 using Partion Magic. I have screwed up major time. I created a Linux and swap ...

May 7, 2013 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Once you're finished, you'll be able to reboot into your secondary OS and run it natively, or run it in your ...

Have installed a couple of OSes over the last couple of days to test them out. Grub is installed and everything looks fine - I see my linux install selected as default and I see my Windows 7 install ...

Planning ahead to multi-boot Windows and Linux distributions is the way to do it, but what if you end up erasing your boot menu and losing access to Linux? The FOSSwire blog has you covered. The ...

Users with dual-boot setups running both Linux and Windows may encounter boot issues following a recent Windows update. This problem affects many Linux distributions, causing systems to fail during ...

That's good advice, and I'm happy to follow it. If all we do is sit around and moan about dual-booting Linux on UEFI systems, it really is likely to discourage some people from trying it, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...