The latest releases of many major Linux distributions now include a bootloader or a shim of some sort to work with UEFI, including Ubuntu 12.10 and Fedora 18.

Despite GRUB's notorious reputation, I've installed it on almost all of my Linux systems. A bootloader sounds scary in theory. This is software where one wrong move can turn your computer into an ...

So, periodically, I like to do side by side analysis of different Linux distros. Latest Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, OpenSuSE, Fedora, Maybe some others. Specifically comparison as a desktop environment ...

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.

I have RH 7.1 and am running Win2k. I was just using the Win2k bootloader by editing the boot.ini and copying over the boot sector from Linux. However, I would like to install WinXP this weekend ...

Or if Android or Linux are already installed on internal storage, Linuxium Bootloader gives you the option to boot or remove that operating system or save it to a microSD card.

The UEFI boot loader can allow independent Linux distributions to run on Windows 8 machines By Joab Jackson U.S. Correspondent, IDG News Service ...

The flaw is located in the GRUB2 Linux bootloader, but because of how Secure Boot is implemented, it can be used to compromise the booting process of Windows and other systems as well.

Thanks to Microsoft's Windows 8 UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot there was no easy way to boot Linux, or any other operating system, on Windows 8 PCs. Now, there are two ...

The UEFI boot loader can allow independent Linux distributions to run on Windows 8 machines ...