Freeing the way for independent Linux distributions to be installed on Windows 8 computers, the Linux Foundation has released software that will allow Linux to work with computers running the UEFI ...

I have been struggling for quite some time now to set up multi-boot support on a new HP Pavilion dm1-4310ez sub-notebook that came preloaded with Windows 8, UEFI, and gpt disk partitioning. During ...

Ubuntu and other Linux distributions make dual booting easy, once certain configuration issues are addressed. Dual booting requires that space be made on the hard ...

Thanks to Microsoft's Windows 8 UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot there was no easy way to boot Linux, or any other operating system, on Windows 8 PCs. Now, there are two ways, ...

Hi All:<BR><BR>Yes, I'm posting again. The good news is that its not<BR>related to XFree86. I downloaded and installed Mandrake 8.2<BR>today. <BR><BR>As with all things I do, something went ...

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 ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...