EFI, the Extensible Firmware Interface, is the firmware layer that initializes hardware before Windows loads. It checks CPU, RAM, storage, and peripherals, then hands control to the operating system.

For some time now I have gotten a slow but steady volume of requests that I write about UEFI firmware and EFI boot relative to installing and maintaining Linux. As a result of a casual comment I made ...

As we reported earlier, many people (especially MacBook Pro owners) are finding that although, according to the descriptions at Apple's Web site, their computer ...

DO NOT USE WINDOWS IMAGE BACKUP. The System Imaging tools is beyond picky and will not restore if the disk is different, or even if the internal disk order is different cause you had the gall to boot ...

This is what you should do if your VirtualBox VM boots only in the UEFI Interactive shell. We talk about Windows and Linux guest OS.