…want to see when you're in the middle of a troubleshooting session. It's an absolute must for dual-booters, especially those working off of a single drive. If you run…
…But getting to that point can be frustrating, and over the years, I've learned coping methods to simplify the troubleshooting when it comes. Everything, from my network up is monitored , and…
…For reasons I never fully nailed down, the system wasn't falling back to the iGPU at boot, and it hung instead of coming up headless. A single red "BOOT_DEVICE" light…
…Alternatively, you can use a tool like Ventoy to install one or more bootable operating systems on your drive, along with some troubleshooting tools to diagnose a failed installation. Ventoy saves you…
…It can be as simple as restoring one VM to a different name, booting it, checking its services, and confirming the data is actually current. Until you do that, your backup is…
…The serial monitor is just as useful for quick troubleshooting While the session log maintains a history of my misadventures Besides the partition management utilities, ESPConnect also has decent debugging provisions. The…
…Better yet, it even works with coffee machines, dryers, and electric vehicles, on top of including noise filtering provisions to avoid random boot energy spikes from messing up the algorithms. The only…
…The next step was to change the boot order so that the system boots Windows from the SD card rather than the built-in SSD. Once that was done, it took close…
…I remember a time when there were no GUI installers, and you had to figure out disk partitioning, boot order, and driver installation all by yourself. You may wonder why that is…
…Instead of booting into the operating system, I was stuck staring at a loading screen that went nowhere. I tried restarting again. Same results. Then again. Still nothing. That's when I…