The EFI updates have been merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel and include an improvement for when the system was booted directly ...

PBIS Open is a software package that permits Linux machines to join Active Directory domains. When I updated from Utopic to Vivid (which I did because numerous things I needed were broken on Utopic), ...

Perhaps the most onerous limitation of the UKI format was that, since it includes the kernel command line, there was no good way to modify the command-line parameters during boot. This made debugging ...

Linux distributions that ship systemd as their init system now have a new version to track. The systemd 261 update adds a cloud metadata subsystem, carries process state through kexec reboots, and ...

Learn how to start troubleshooting systemd-enabled machines with the systemd-analyze tool. If you can only read one tech story a day, this is it. We use cookies and other data collection technologies ...

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Do you have multiple kernels on your Linux server, but aren’t prompted to select which you want to run? The fix for that might lie in systemd-boot configuration. If you can only read one tech story a ...

GRUB2 and systemd present a major change for Linux boot options in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, including a change in how admins troubleshoot a server that doesn't boot ...

When Linux users get into arguments about init systems, the conversation usually circles back to systemd. systemd came out of a time when the Linux ecosystem was experimenting a lot, as distros ...