After managing to completely hose my system, I decided it was time for a wipe 'n reload. I backed up all relevant files, and blew everything away. I'm installing Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64, and Windows XP 32 ...

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 ...

Linux: We've shown you how to clean up your messy boot menu in Ubuntu, but if you don't want to remove old kernels entirely, free program Grub Customizer will clean up your boot menu in no time. Clean ...

I've got a laptop with Win2k on it, and I want to install Linux. Trouble is, there's no (working) bootable device on the thing except the hard drive. No floppy, no cdrom, no network boot, nothing but ...

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 ...