Because of my multi-boot setup, and the fact that I am more or less continually reloading one distribution or another, I've had to look a bit deeper into setting up and configuring GRUB recently. Here ...
Pressing the backspace key 28 times can bypass the Grub2 bootloader’s password protection and allow a hacker to install malware on a locked-down Linux system. GRUB, which stands for the Grand Unified ...
The whole purpose of dual-booting is to choose which OS you want to boot into. Traditionally, this is done in a clunky way, ...
Why it matters: Billions of computers that are currently in use rely on a feature called Secure Boot to ensure malware has one less way of penetrating your computer. However, a new flaw discovered in ...
When Ubuntu changed to Grub 2 a couple of releases ago, it became significantly more difficult to set up multi-boot Linux systems. Most if not all Ubuntu derivatives are also using Grub2, and now the ...
If you are stuck and can't boot into Windows after installing Arch, and instead of seeing the Windows Boot Manager, you see ...
The firmware ' UEFI ' installed in the PC has a mechanism called 'Secure Boot'. Secure Boot verifies the signature of the program that is executed before the OS starts, and protects the device by ...
To make a long story short, I have WinXP and Red Hat 9.0 installed on the same hard drive in my laptop. Previously I had been using the GRUB bootloader to choose my OS, but I had to re-install Windows ...
Obviously, this isn’t ideal. This bug will only impact some of the most secured systems. If you use GRUB’s password feature to lock down your bootloader, you’ll want to install the security updates ...
Pressing the backspace key 28 times can bypass the Grub2 bootloader’s password protection and allow a hacker to install malware on a locked-down Linux system. GRUB, which stands for the Grand Unified ...