Start-up problems. That moment when – having expected yourself to be getting on with your day's work or entertainment – you find yourself staring at a cryptic ...

Automatic partitioning is safe and fast for standard installs—choose it if unsure. Manual partitioning is needed if you dual-boot, use LVM, or want separate filesystems for different partitions. Plan ...

We list the best Linux repair and rescue distros, to make it simple and easy to gain access to a wide range of tools to help restore your Linux OS. As with most things Linux, there’s no shortage of ...

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 ...

When your PC stops booting, a boot drive is the electronic version of a defibrillator. If you can boot your PC, you can detect bad memory, chase bad sectors, change passwords, and recover data … all ...

Let's start by clearly stating what this post is, and what it isn't. It is a description of how I set up multi-boot for Linux systems, sometimes including Windows, using the GRUB bootloader. It is not ...

The bootable rescue environment I reach for when systems won’t start.