Rarely some Mac systems may randomly show the boot menu when starting up. If this happens here are some options you can try to fix the issue. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

On Microsoft's MSDN blog, the company has revealed in great detail some of the changes we can expect to see to boot options inherent in Windows 8. Most notably, gone are the days of tapping F8 ...

AMI BIOS uses the F8 key to invoke a boot drive menu. Pressing it during POST shows a list of available drives in order to select the boot device, whether the hard drive(s), CD, floppy, etc. Very ...

Do you use multiple partitions on your Mac? Maybe you use Apple’s Boot Camp tool to boot your Mac into Windows occasionally, or maybe you’ve got a Mac Pro loaded with four drives partitioned into 16 ...

This article discusses Hardware Interrupts in Windows and how to show the boot menu in Windows. A video at the MSDN blog shows Windows booting real fast – under seven seconds. The computer used was an ...

EasyBCD is a robust tool for modifying the Windows bootloader. It is incredibly useful and gives you unrivaled customization capabilities over one of the most delicate programs on your Windows 11/10 ...

Windows: Windows 8 has a new boot loader with a graphic interface and options like troubleshooting problems. It's harder now, though, to quickly get to advanced options or load a different OS (e.g., ...

That may make it interpret it differently. Also you can try to install DOS 6.22 before installing Windows and I think it used to allow you to choose in the startup menu whether you wanted to go into ...

In the first article of this series, I explained the fundamentals behind the Libreboot free software BIOS project and why you might want to replace your BIOS with it. I followed up by describing how ...