The EFI System Partition, better known as ESP, does exist and if you aren’t familiar with it already you should never have to be. Unfortunately Microsoft doesn’t feel that way and once again a lack of ...

I recently got a new pre-loved laptop and as always I nuked Windows but in the process of booting up, I noticed that my BIOS was a bit out of date. Like a whole year out of date. Flashing your BIOS in ...

On his blog, Peter Jones writes about the boot process for UEFI, looking at the requirements for EFI System Partitions (ESPs), how the BootOrder variable is used, falling back to removable media, and ...

DO NOT USE WINDOWS IMAGE BACKUP. The System Imaging tools is beyond picky and will not restore if the disk is different, or even if the internal disk order is different cause you had the gall to boot ...

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 ...

Let's start by clearly stating what this post is, and what it isn't. It is a description of how I set up multi-boot for Linux systems, sometimes including Windows, using the GRUB bootloader. It is not ...