some of my machines boot to a nice purple high-res grub menu, and some just get the plain 80x24 console, but i can't figure out where this is set. #GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480 is commented out by default in ...

Written by J.A. Watson, Contributor Nov. 19, 2009 at 1:21 a.m. PT I got some good news in a comment over on "href="http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/blogger/J.A ...

I recently built a new computer, and I have 2 hard drives installed, one for win7 and one for ubuntu.<BR><BR>I installed win7 first on one drive, then I unplugged the power to that drive and installed ...

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 ...

The Linux boot process can be easily password protected to prevent just anyone from booting your server. Jack Wallen demonstrates on Ubuntu Server. If you use Linux in your data center, on your ...

Grub2, the new boot menu installed by default with Ubuntu 9.10, can still look pretty old-school ugly if your tastes don't run with white terminal text on black. You can, however, customize its ...

Windows 8 PCs will come with Microsoft's UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot. This "feature" will make it much harder to boot Linux or other operating systems. Canonical, Ubuntu ...

A severe vulnerability exists in almost all signed versions of GRUB2 bootloader used by most Linux systems. When properly exploited, it could allow threat actors to compromise an operating system’s ...