I've got my Ubuntu system at home set up using UEFI boot, mirrored root/home using btrfs, and mirrored swap using LVM, but making sure that /boot/efi is mirrored across both drives and usable in the ...

Unless your computer is pretty old, it probably uses UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) to boot. The idea is that a bootloader picks up files from an EFI partition and uses them to start ...

When a VirtualBox virtual machine boots directly into the UEFI Interactive Shell, it’s typically because the EFI firmware cannot automatically find a bootable operating system loader. This could be ...

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 ...

Sometimes people who have just reinstalled OS X on their systems or migrated to a new boot device may find a folder entitled "Boot OSX" appearing on their desktops. Topher, an avid Mac user for the ...

A bit of an odd request, but I was wondering if anyone had an old copy of the first developer preview of 10.7 Lion. I just need one small file from it and don't want to download the whole 4gb .dmg to ...

Those of you who joined us for last night's TUAW Talkcast know that one of the Mac OS X 10.6.5 issues that we discussed dealt with PGP WDE (Whole Disk Encryption), a Symantec product that is used to ...