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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Australian security penetration tester has developed a method to inject a rootkit capable of loading at boot on encrypted Apple computers. The proof-of-concept rootkit defeats FileVault encryption ...

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 ...