I am a man with a passion: computers.
This was one of my main interests while growing up and it naturally became a
successful career.
My main interests are programming and Unix-like operating systems. This blog
collect and share with you my experiments, my findings and part of the personal
projects I am working on. Enjoy.
When I started playing with Linux, installing a dual boot system was the standard: back in the days we were talking about BIOS, the first 512 bytes of a disk (the Master Boot Record) and Bootloaders like LILO. Today EFI, GPT and Secure Boot have introduced a new layer of complexity and we need to update our knowledge. Let’s do this with this article.
After a long time I decided to give another try at Slax Linux. I found a very good page documenting the startup process and some interesting features. Unfortunately there are also negative points.
Whether you are new to the Software Engineering field or you are having a great career and your question is simply «How can I improve even more?», this article will give you food for thought.
The traditional method to create a bootable USB stick with an installation of a Linux Live distribution requires to dedicate the full USB stick to that purpose, but the total amount of required space is just few GB and the rest is wasted. This article will describe how to overcome the issue so it is not required anymore to decide the purpose of the device in advance.