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Get to Know the Windows 7 Architecture

By adfm : 18 March 2010 - 09:01 AM
Would you like to know more about the Windows 7 boot environment or its diagnostics and troubleshooting infrastructure? This excerpt from William R. Stanek's Windows® 7 Administrator's Pocket Cons...
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How to create a Knoppix boot diskette

By carlaschroder : 24 August 2009 - 02:58 PM
If your system will not boot from a CD, but you would still like to use Knoppix, here's how to create a Knoppix boot diskette:Knoppix comes with a boot image all ready to copy to a diskette. Load ...
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How to boot Knoppix

By carlaschroder : 24 August 2009 - 02:45 PM
If you want to customize Knoppix's boot process you'll need to find out what boot-time options Knoppix has. To see all boot options, hit F2 at the prompt. You can just pop Knoppix into the d...
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How to create the GRUB boot menu

By carlaschroder : 24 August 2009 - 02:18 PM
As fun as it is to discover root devices and kernels from the GRUB command line, you would like to preserve your boot parameters in a configuration file and have a nice boot menu to use at startup. In...
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How to discover boot parameters from the GRUB command shell

By carlaschroder : 24 August 2009 - 02:06 PM
You need to know the locations of Linux kernels and root devices on your system in order to boot it. Use GRUB's tab completion to find root devices and kernel images. First, boot to the GRUB com...
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