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 ...

The firmware ' UEFI ' installed in the PC has a mechanism called 'Secure Boot'. Secure Boot verifies the signature of the program that is executed before the OS starts, and protects the device by ...

Pressing the backspace key 28 times can bypass the Grub2 bootloader’s password protection and allow a hacker to install malware on a locked-down Linux system. GRUB, which stands for the Grand Unified ...

Why it matters: Billions of computers that are currently in use rely on a feature called Secure Boot to ensure malware has one less way of penetrating your computer. However, a new flaw discovered in ...

Operating system maintainers, computer manufacturers, security and virtualization software vendors have worked together over the past few months to coordinate a unified response to a vulnerability ...

If you do want to take the Archinstall route, you'll find that the new update adds a new screen to the process that lets you ...

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 ...

According to user reports following this month's Patch Tuesday, the August 2024 Windows security updates are breaking dual boot on some Linux systems with Secure Boot enabled. This issue is caused by ...

The modular Grand Unified Bootloader in version 2.x is still the boot method used by the installers of most Linux systems. Support for a number of file systems, EFI, secure boot and multiboot make ...

So, when I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04, my dual boot box got messed up. Here's what I have: /dev/sda - 80gb - Part of an 160gb LVM0 /dev/sdb - 80gb - Part of an 160gb LVM0 /dev/sdc - 750gb - My main disk ...