Today I have a tale of mystery, of horror, and of hope. The allure of a newer kernel and packages was too much to resist, so I found myself upgrading to Fedora 30. All the packages had downloaded, all ...

Hi.. I'm currently back on macOS but ran Ubuntu 20.04 on my iMac for ~4 months exclusively. As in no macOS install at all. Purely Ubuntu. At least once a month, my boot disk would revert to read only.

On many Linux systems the boot process sees the usual BIOS screen, followed by Grub. The Grand Unified Bootloader (Grub) takes over from our BIOS and offers the user a choice of OS options and kernel ...

I wanted to check out Ubuntu.<BR><BR>I slapped in an old drive and proceeded to install Ubuntu onto it. No problems until I rebooted. It had decided to make my PC dual boot and put a grub loader on ...

In the last couple of days I’ve probably learned more than I ever wanted to know about BCDs, MBRs, boot sectors, boot menus, lilo, Wubi, and grub. When I complained that Windows 7 had trashed my grub ...