The UEFI boot process and disk layout. In order to boot a UEFI firmware system, there has to be an EFI boot partition on the disk. This is a relatively small (100MB or so is enough) FAT partition ...

If you dual-boot Linux and Windows, you expect to move between the two without much fuss. But I’ve had moments when I booted into Linux and suddenly couldn’t see my Windows partitions.

I can configure SBM to give meaningful names to the boot options and to always boot the first partition ... And, by the way, if you start out with the right hardware, dual-booting Linux on a ...

The bootloader shows both Linux and Windows options on a dual-boot system. When you install Windows after Linux, Windows ignores Linux, doesn’t know how to resize its partitions, and overwrites ...

Can't decide whether you want to dual boot that second OS or virtualize it? Debate no more: you can have both. Here's how to dual boot and virtualize the same partition on your Windows PC or Mac ...

Partitions are logical divisions of space on a hard drive. When Windows or Linux is installed as the only operating system, they will usually create partitions that take up the whole hard drive. With ...

I dual boot with debian sid and winxp. So i resized by winxp fat32 partition to free up some<BR>space and that went fine. However, when i rebooted i can go into windows fine via lilo, but not into ...

A review of what EFI boot (UEFI firmware) is, how it works, how it interacts with Linux installations, and a few tips and personal experiences on how to configure and maintain it.

I made my boot partition a little smaller than I'd like when I created my OpenSUSE 11.1 VM using VMware Fusion 2.0.5.I have used VMware to expand the virtual hard disk from 10GB to 15GB, but I'm ...

In my case, I need to move the extended partition to the right so that I can extend the boot partition.To do this, I right click the extended partition and choose Resize/Move.