Most of us know that the Master Boot Record (MBR) is a special type of boot sector, placed at the beginning of the storage device, that tells your computer what to do when it starts. It contains ...

EDIT: It did - changing that setting back to "AHCI" resulted in a, "This operating system failed to start", message when I tried to boot XP. Changing the BIOS back to the "IDE" setting didn't fix that ...

I'm going to start this post by saying something that a lot of people will find surprising. There are a lot of things that I like about UEFI firmware and the UEFI boot process. I think it is an ...

We're in the home stretch now. In the first post of this series I looked at the general characteristics of Linux installations on systems with UEFI firmware - specifically how the disk is partitioned, ...