The Linux boot process can be easily password protected to prevent just anyone from booting your server. Jack Wallen demonstrates on Ubuntu Server. If you use Linux in your data center, on your ...

What do you do when you need to choose an OS at boot but aren’t physically near your machine? [Dakhnod]’s inventive solution is a mix of GRUB, Wake-on-LAN (WOL), and a lightweight ESP8266 running a ...

Quite a few boot managers are available. Of course, Linux uses LILO, FreeBSD installs BootEasy, and you can also use OS-BS, payware like System Commander and other boot managers that ship with ...

Last year I worked on a project to add an OEM-style rescue partition to a computer. Where most OEM installs have a custom program that just rewrites an install image over the top of the partition, in ...

I installed FreeBSD 4.9 on my second hdd and now I can't get grub to start so I can access my other Linux installs.<BR><BR>I get a screen at boot like this:<BR>F1 Linux<BR>F2 ??<BR>F3 Linux<BR>F4 ...

GRUB2, one of the world’s most-widely used programs for booting up computers, has a vulnerability that can make it easier for attackers to run malicious firmware during startup, researchers said on ...