A pivotal aspect for any user, whether a seasoned system administrator or a curious enthusiast, is understanding its boot process and runlevels. This article aims to demystify these concepts, ...

Recently, Microsoft released a Windows update that accidentally crashed a wrecking ball into systems that dual-boot Linux ... being loaded during the boot process). To achieve this, an SBAT ...

Researchers have discovered malicious code circulating in the wild that hijacks the earliest stage boot process of Linux devices by exploiting a year-old firmware vulnerability when it remains ...

A critical vulnerability in the Shim Linux bootloader enables attackers ... by Red Hat that is designed to facilitate the Secure Boot process on computers using Unified Extensible Firmware ...

Development work on this latest Linux-on-iDevices effort is still in its early days. The photos that the developers shared both show a basic boot process that fails because it can't mount a ...