Jones: The EFI System Partition and the Default Boot Behavior ISTM that no matter what file system (not to mention ethernet etc) is in use, the boot image file will be located on certain disk sectors, ...

I recently got a new pre-loved laptop and as always I nuked Windows but in the process of booting up, I noticed that my BIOS was a bit out of date. Like a whole year out of date. Flashing your BIOS in ...

DO NOT USE WINDOWS IMAGE BACKUP. The System Imaging tools is beyond picky and will not restore if the disk is different, or even if the internal disk order is different cause you had the gall to boot ...

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 ...

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 ...

First off, a little context. I'm a 30+ year Mac user and I just bought my first PC in decades. I'm no stranger to Windows and Linux, but haven't used them as a desktop OS for about 15 years. My ...

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