Windows 8 Boot Screens Get a Classy New Look. By Elizabeth Fish. Sep 22, 2011 2:41 pm PDT. ... With Windows 8, Microsoft does away with the scrolling BIOS messages of the past.

The Windows 8 installation creates a special FAT-32 partition for EFI Boot, separate from the Windows C: partition. When Ubuntu is installed, it will recognise this existing partition, and it will ...

The log file, named "ntblog.txt" is located in the "C:\Windows" directory. You can open and read it with Notepad. Windows creates a new entry for each boot instance at the end of an existing log file.

Firstly, if Windows 8 detects a serious error, it will interrupt the boot process automatically and display advanced boot options. This is not unlike what Windows does already.

In other words, a Windows 8 PC could be set up so that it only boot from files that have been signed by Microsoft or an OEM vendor; and obviously, an open-source, build-it-yourself Linux boot ...

Secure boot debuted in Windows 8, and while it's a pleasant surprise to see Microsoft extend the feature to Windows 7, it doesn't seem to work correctly for everyone.

A new security measure introduced with Windows 8 requiring so-called secure boot keys could make it more difficult for consumers to load other operating systems including Linux on OEM Microsoft ...

Did you know that an SSD-equipped Windows 8 PC can boot up in under seven seconds? Watch the video below if you don’t believe it, Microsoft has optimized the hell out of the startup time of its ...

Many Linux lovers are worried that Microsoft's new Secure Boot technology will make it more difficult to get the open source operating system onto machines that originally ship with Windows 8. But ...

Once you have this information, you can troubleshoot numerous problems. Here’s how to enable the boot log using Windows built-in msconfig.exe tool. Step 1: Fire up msconfig.