We’ve talked about PXE booting the Raspberry Pi 3B+, and then looked at the Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop replacement. But there’s more! The Pi 4 sports a very useful new feature, the fla… ...

You can now boot the Raspberry Pi 3 from just about anything. The documentation for these new boot modes goes over the process of how to put an image on a USB thumb drive.

Compellent this week introduced software that makes it easier for storage administrators to set up their servers to boot from storage-area networks.

At my job when we ghost all the computers we disconnect them from the network (ghosting slows down the network a bunch) and connect them to a small switch manualy (which is hooked up to the ghost ...

Slow booting in SysVinit is due, at least in part, to the fact that the entire process depends on a series of shell scripts which themselves tend to be slow (forks, after all, consume resources).

Conclusion Understanding the boot process and runlevels in Linux is not just academic; it's a practical skill that enhances one's ability to manage, troubleshoot, and optimize Linux systems. This ...

IT administrators are being warned to watch for patches from Microsoft, Linux distributors, and major software makers to patch a serious buffer flow vulnerability in the bootloader process of ...

Lenovo has released fixes for high-severity bios vulnerabilities affecting the UEFI firmware of several Lenovo Notebooks that could enable an attacker to disable the secure boot process and run ...