I've got my Ubuntu system at home set up using UEFI boot, mirrored root/home using btrfs, and mirrored swap using LVM, but making sure that /boot/efi is mirrored across both drives and usable in the ...

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 ...

Unless your computer is pretty old, it probably uses UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) to boot. The idea is that a bootloader picks up files from an EFI partition and uses them to start ...

When users wish to list and manually choose from all available boot volumes, holding the options key down will display locally bootable volumes. Some users have noticed that this boot menu has started ...

This is not strictly a server-specific topic but this is something that probably becomes more of a problem with server and automated provisioning environments. Though in my case it's my home lab. Most ...

My previous post on Linux Mint Debian Edition 201303 has obviously uncovered a lot of confusion about EFI booting and GPT partition tables. I hope that I can explain it all a bit more, with a couple ...

When a VirtualBox virtual machine boots directly into the UEFI Interactive Shell, it’s typically because the EFI firmware cannot automatically find a bootable operating system loader. This could be ...