If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...

The following is a continuation of a series of columns on Linux disasters and how to recover from them, inspired in part by a Halloween Linux Journal Live episode ...

Yeah, Redhat did a Megab0rk(TM) on me this afternoon... I got many many errors and my computer just blackscreened, with the accompaniment of a orchestrial grinding sound from my HDD. When I reboot, ...

If you've ever delved into the realm of Windows/Linux dual-booting, you probably know that the Master Boot Record can unexpectedly stop working, leaving you locked out of your Windows system. If you ...

If you erase the partition containing /boot, you will break GRUB. Boot off a XP recovery CD and run fixmbr to replace the MBR before running Partition Magic.