Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Canonical has reversed its decision to drop Ubuntu's GRUB 2 bootloader in favor of EFILinux on ...

I recently built a new computer, and I have 2 hard drives installed, one for win7 and one for ubuntu.<BR><BR>I installed win7 first on one drive, then I unplugged the power to that drive and installed ...

In an effort to provide an "it just works" experience, future versions of Ubuntu will move away from GRUB 2 on UEFI systems. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window ...

The problem of dealing with UEFI’s Secure Boot in Windows 8-certified PCs is still being wrestled with by various Linux distros, and today the Ubuntu team has revealed more about their proposed ...

Written by J.A. Watson, Contributor Nov. 19, 2009 at 1:21 a.m. PT I got some good news in a comment over on "href="http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/blogger/J.A ...

Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, is the next major release of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. Karmic is scheduled to arrive in October, but developers can get an early look by testing the ...

Grub2, the new boot menu installed by default with Ubuntu 9.10, can still look pretty old-school ugly if your tastes don't run with white terminal text on black. You can, however, customize its ...

GRUB: it's neither larva, fast food nor the loveliest of acronyms in the GNU herd of free software. Rather, GRUB is the GNU GRand Unified Bootloader. And, it is truly the greatest loader for booting ...

News briefs for January 31, 2019. Ubuntu 18.04 needs to be patched to fix several security bugs. ZDNet reports that Canonical is updating Ubuntu 18.04 to a new kernel, 4.15.0-44.47, which contains 11 ...