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

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.

Windows 11/10 provides the necessary Boot architecture for avoiding bootkits and rootkits threats. It has the potential to eliminate kernel-level malware from your network.

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).

No, really, I can start the boot process, take a dump, wash up, get a glass of water, and STILL not have a login box. <BR><BR>A tech suggested that it's "timing out" on the network connection.

By disabling several scripts you can speed up the boot and shutdown process. The Zolved weblog recommends 7 scripts that you can disable in order to speed up your Ubuntu system: ...

Clearly a project from the “Because why not?” school of hacking, [Jozef Bogin] came up with the twist to the normal booting process for an IBM-PC.

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 ...

The Linux boot process is a sequence of events that initializes a Linux system from a powered-off state to a fully operational state. The knowledge of Linux boot process is essential when it comes to ...