A Smackerel of Opinion

An Option ROM is firmware called by the BIOS, for example the Video BIOS or a SCSI controller card. The BIOS Boot Specification requires ...

Recently I copied a hard disk image onto a backup drive using dd and later on needed to mount the third partition from this image. Usually ...

The FirmWare Test Suite (fwts) is a tool I've been working on to do automatic testing of a PC's firmware. There can be a lot of sub...

Last week my colleague Ike Pan showed the Ubuntu Kernel Team how to create a bootable USB key with multiple ISO images on it. One simply c...