You know how you can make your bootloader sing a little tune?Well… what if instead of music, you could make it play Space Invaders? Yes, that’s a real thing.It’s called GRUB Invaders, and it runs before your operating system even wakes up.Because who needs Linux when you can blast aliens...
So, you know that feeling when you’re editing GRUB for the thousandth time, because dual-booting is apparently a lifestyle choice?In a previous post — Resurrecting My Windows Partition After 4 Years 🖥️🎮 — I was neck-deep in grub.cfg, poking at boot entries, fixing UUIDs, and generally performing a...
Sometimes Linux life is bliss. I have my terminal, my editor, my tools, and Steam games that run natively. For nearly four years, I didn’t touch Windows once — and I didn’t miss it. And then Fortnite happened. My girlfriend Enya and her wife Kyra got hooked, and naturally I wanted to join...
A couple of years ago, I moved into a new flat that comes with RJ45 sockets wired for 10 Gigabit (but currently offering 1 Gigabit) Ethernet.This also meant changing the settings on my router box for my new ISP.I took this opportunity to review my router's other settings too. I'll be blogging...
Recently, the Linux operating system on my laptop no longer boots. It seems that the boot sector for GRUB bootloader is corrupted. I tried to reinstall GRUB with an Ubuntu LiveCD; however, I have encountered some problem related to Btrfs file system (which is the file system for my root mount...
It has been for a while that my desktop PC was not showing the GRUB2 menu. Besides, I noticed that there was a warning message during the execution of update-grub: Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported. After checking the manual,...