If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...

I tried installing Ubuntu 11.04 beta 1 on my MacBook Pro 13" (mid-2009, MacBookPro5,5). Since the installation, the machine has problems booting. The boot sequence goes like this: Boot 1 (after ...

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 ...

First off, a little context. I'm a 30+ year Mac user and I just bought my first PC in decades. I'm no stranger to Windows and Linux, but haven't used them as a desktop OS for about 15 years. My ...