Freeing the way for independent Linux distributions to be installed on Windows 8 computers, the Linux Foundation has released software that will allow Linux to work with computers running the UEFI ...

Freeing the way for independent Linux distributions to be installed on Windows 8 computers, the Linux Foundation has released software that will allow Linux to work with computers running the UEFI ...

Boot loader installer The third part of the boot loader is only run when the boot loader is installed on a disk. As opposed to the boot sector program and second stage, this is a normal Linux program.

Boot loader installer The third part of the boot loader is only run when the boot loader is installed on a disk. As opposed to the boot sector program and second stage, this is a normal Linux program.

Getting Linux to boot and install on PCs locked down with Windows 8's UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot continues to be annoying at best and downright impossible in some cases.

If the BIOS can't see it, then no bootloader in the world will be able to boot off it, that I'm aware of. You could certainly write one, but it would require including enough PCI and firewire support ...

The Linux Foundation bootloader, which Bottomley said technically is more of “a preloader,” can work with any generic Linux bootloader. “We did this because our mission is to enable any bootloader in ...