What do you do when you need to choose an OS at boot but aren’t physically near your machine? [Dakhnod]’s inventive solution is a mix of GRUB, Wake-on-LAN (WOL), and a lightweight ESP8266 running a ...

On many Linux systems the boot process sees the usual BIOS screen, followed by Grub. The Grand Unified Bootloader (Grub) takes over from our BIOS and offers the user a choice of OS options and kernel ...

Quite a few boot managers are available. Of course, Linux uses LILO, FreeBSD installs BootEasy, and you can also use OS-BS, payware like System Commander and other boot managers that ship with ...

spryde's not quite right. Those numbers only work if there are hard drives on all the channels. If, for an odd example, you have one drive on primary master, nothing in primary slave, an optical drive ...

Ubuntu and most other Linux distributions now use the GRUB2 boot loader. You can change its settings to select a default ...