Interesting Windows XP boot code. Checking if we need to boot from CD.
How the Windows XP installer detects a valid partition during installation.
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Windows XP boot code. This is very interesting.
How the boot process of Windows XP works, this is very interesting code indeed.
Read MoreGet information about your Linux boot easily.
How to get useful information about the boot time of your Linux system.
Read MoreI got Ubuntu to boot with UEFI on a modern PC.
How I added UEFI boot to my old Ubuntu installlation.
Read MoreGet information about your boot partitions easily.
How to get information about the boot partitions in your Linux machine.
Read MoreAnnoying PC issue with a simple fix.
Why your computer is in a constant boot loop. How best to fix this annoying issue.
Read MoreAnother good way to speed up the boot time of Ubuntu.
My Ubuntu 18.04 system was taking a long time to boot, but I have analyzed the problem with Systemd and now it should boot faster. Run this command to see which service takes the longest at boot time. 4.4 Thu Oct 17 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ systemd-analyze blame | head -n…
Read MoreHow to optimize boot up times on Ubuntu 18.04.
There are quite a few services running on Ubuntu, they can slow down bootup times and be very annoying. One of the best ways to find out which is to use this command. The systemd-analyze blame command. This will print out a list of the services started on boot. Here…
Read MoreGet the startup time of your Linux machine with systemd.
The systemd-analyze command will print the time taken for the system to boot up. This separates the time for the kernel and the userspace environment. root@darkstar:~# systemd-analyze Startup finished in 4.728s (kernel) + 28.339s (userspace) = 33.068sroot@darkstar:~# systemd-analyze Startup finished in 4.728s (kernel) + 28.339s (userspace) = 33.068s This command…
Read MoreHow to mount the Ubuntu filesystem read-write when you have mounted the filesystem in recovery mode.
If you have appended this to the end of the grub command line to change a lost password: init=/bin/bash Ubuntu and you get this error. root@USB-h55-PC:~# passwd jason Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: Authentication token manipulation error passwd: password unchangedroot@USB-h55-PC:~# passwd jason Enter new UNIX password:…
Read MoreHow to disable fast boot on Windows 8.1 that prevents mounting the partition from Linux.
The fast boot feature of Windows 8.1 allows a user to load Windows faster than ever before; but this can interfere with the mounting of the Windows partition from Linux. This forces the user to mount the partition read-only. But if you use this command in a command prompt on…
Read MoreHow to get to safe mode in Windows 8 Pro final release.
This is not really applicable to Linux, but I am running Windows 8 Pro dual booted with Linux Mint 14 and I encountered a bug that stopped Windows 8 from fully starting up. I found out that if you press the F5 key just after booting Windows 8 you will…
Read MoreFedora 18 to support UEFI secure boot and to ship with the MATE desktop.
The Fedora 18 Linux distribution will have support for UEFI secure boot uopn release as well as the Linux Mint MATE desktop available for installation. I prefer XFce4 now; but the MATE desktop still is very good for those of us who want a retro looking Linux desktop that is…
Read MoreVery good deals on Solid State Drives and how to optimise your SSD when running Debian.
This 128 Gigabyte SSD drive is only AU$99.00. This is an awesome deal for the price that is asked; Since Debian can boot very fast anyway; having an SSD drive as your boot drive would make your computer boot up very fast indeed. Solid State Drives use microchips to store…
Read MoreHow to boot an Ubuntu ISO without a thumb drive or a CD. Read more to find out.
I was wanting to try out an older version of Ubuntu on my netbook; but I did not want to write the ISO image to a thumb drive to boot it; therefore I copied the ISO image to a subfolder of my /boot folder; /boot/iso and then I added this…
Read MoreRe-installing the Grand Unified Boot loader (GRUB2) in Linux Mint 13.
I recently installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my computer, triple-booting with Linux Mint 12 and Linux Mint 13, this overwrote my boot-loader for my Linux Mint 13 installation. Therefore, after booting into my Linux Mint 13 distribution I re-installed the boot-loader using the command-line. Using the grub-install command to re-install the…
Read MoreSetting up the Linux Mint grub menu. How to use a *.png wallpaper to spice up your boot menu.
Setting up the Linux Mint grub menu, set a png file as the background This is my copy of the /etc/grub.d/06_mint_theme file I found on my system, I have uncommented quite a lot of the code and I got it working. I then copied a png format image to my…
Read MoreDisplaying GRUB 2 boot menu by default with Linux Mint 12.
This is my /etc/default/grub file, and this is how I got my GRUB 2 boot menu to display by default with Linux Mint 12. You just need to add the GRUB_HIDDEN=0 line to the menu and ensure the rest of the file looks like my example and the menu will…
Read MoreRedmond still pursuing UEFI secure boot.
Redmond are at it again. They are still planning to use UEFI secure boot to lock down ARM powered devices and prevent them from booting, or even allowing the installation of Linux or UNIX based operating systems. This is part of a plan by Microsoft to block the installation of…
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