I recently got a new pre-loved laptop and as always I nuked Windows but in the process of booting up, I noticed that my BIOS was a bit out of date. Like a whole year out of date. Flashing your BIOS in ...

For some time now I have gotten a slow but steady volume of requests that I write about UEFI firmware and EFI boot relative to installing and maintaining Linux. As a result of a casual comment I made ...

For anyone wondering how to do this from OS X, you can mount the EFI partition using the mount command. It's a FAT partition, but isn't marked as such, so you'll need to specify a partition type, for ...

If you recently moved from BIOS to UEFI and you cannot boot your computer since then, here is how you can repair the EFI bootloader in Windows 11/10. It is pretty easy to repair the EFI bootloader ...

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.<BR><BR>I have used VMware to expand the virtual hard disk from 10GB to 15GB, but I ...

My previous post on Linux Mint Debian Edition 201303 has obviously uncovered a lot of confusion about EFI booting and GPT partition tables. I hope that I can explain it all a bit more, with a couple ...

The boot drive's format and partition structure can be checked both in the OS X graphical interface and in the Terminal. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...

This guide walks you through steps to help you mirror the Boot Hard drive on Windows (Legacy or UEFI). This is useful when the primary hard drive fails and will help you boot from the secondary drive.