External hard drives are convenient, but in rare cases some people have found that keeping them attached to their Macs at boot may result in a system hang. External hard disks have become a very ...

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 ...

The OS X boot arguments are useful for troubleshooting problems with system startup and how the system behaves when running. When you boot a Mac system you have the option to supply keyboard commands ...

To load a program into memory, you mustfirst load a program into memory. The bootupprocess, often a complex multistep sequenceinvolving numerous substeps, solvesthis problem. Any boot-up process, ...

Windows 7 and Ubuntu, despite their opposing missions, can get along like best pals on a single computer. Here's how to set up a dual boot system that lets you enjoy the best of both worlds in perfect ...

Back in the old days of 2010, I used to walk into my home office in the morning, hit the power button on my production system, and then head back upstairs to have breakfast. By the time I returned to ...

Install NT/2000 on a 95/98/Me PC Adding Windows NT or Windows 2000 to a machine that already has Windows 95, 98, or Me on it is much simpler than the reverse for one simple reason: Windows NT/2000 is ...

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 ...

At the Linux Plumbers Conference Thursday, Arjan van de Ven, Linux developer at Intel and author of PowerTOP, and Auke Kok, another Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center, ...

MacBooks set up with a dual-boot system that includes Mac OS X and Windows 7 automatically boot to the Mac OS X operating system by default. Business users often need to use the Windows system more ...