Linux

21 Oct 2025

How to boot Proxmox from USB using GRUB

The last time I was forced to install a fresh Linux system on my old laptop, I had opportunity to learn how to steer GRUB to boot a system using a bootloader located on a USB drive. This little trick saved me dozens of …

06 Mar 2021

Using local DNS in dhcpcd causes to ignore others DNS

I struggled with the strange behavior of dhcpcd on my Raspberry Pi powered by Raspbian. The RPi does many things on my local network, including ad-blocking thanks to the pihole service. I run pihole1 as a docker …

02 Apr 2020

How to boot system from USB using GRUB

Almost every modern computer has a dedicated menu to choose from which device the system should boot. If not, there is an option in BIOS/UEFI to change that. But what if both options failed for some reason?