Grub Customizer, a graphical configuration tool for Grub and BURG boot-loader, has recently reached the 5.0.x series with Ubuntu 16.04 support and a few fixes.
Grub Customizer provides a graphical interface to make it easy to:
- create, move, remove, edit Grub menu entries
- set default OS
- show or hide Grub menu and change the time delay.
- change background image, resolution, fonts, etc.
- install Grub boot-loader to Windows’ MBR, and more.
Grub Customizer, edit menu entries
Grub Customizer General Settings
grub customizer theme settings
How to Install Grub-Customizer in Ubuntu 16.04:
This open-source application is available in the developer’s PPA repository for all current Ubuntu releases and their derivatives.
Install Grub Customizer and receive future updates via Software Updater:
1. Open terminal from App Launcher or via Ctrl+Alt+T keys. When it opens, paste below command to add PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
Type in password (no visual feedback when typing password) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
2. Then update package lists and install the software:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install grub-customizer
Get Grub-Customizer installer directly from PPA packages page:
For those who don’t want to add PPA, grab the .deb package for your system and click install via Software Center.
Grub Customizer PPA Package Page
(Optional) To remove Grub Customizer, use Synaptic Package Manager or run command in terminal:
sudo apt-get remove grub-customizer
Hello. Great tutorial. My question is, how come when I use the Grub Customizer to put my custom value of 1366x768x24, it doesn’t work on the actual boot up screen? My boot menu looks as it should when I do sudo burg-emu (yes, I installed burg on 16.04 LTS (It appears as Burg Mode) but the actual menu when I boot is not reflecting my screen’s native resolution. Any fix on this?
Thanks in advance.
A little complicated. You can try to read:
https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/877
Grub only supports 256 colors. you cannot use 24 bit color.
Look. I just want to thank you. The cli worked like a dream, and the excellent ap, LONG overdue, although i haven’t booted yet.
This was NOT complicated, but beautiful!
Thank you helped me install it
Quero baixar o Grub Customizer no Meu Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, como faço ?
Thanks! The Grub Customizer helped me install Remix OS for PC on the same SSD drive, and in a folder and allowed me to select Remix OS along with the default Ubuntu 16.04 OS on my tiny HP Pavillion 10z Touchscreen notebook. Now I can select what OS I would like to run as well as easily update the Remix OS by just running unsquashfs system.sfs and replace the system.img under /remix.
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How do I….
How do I configure one Grub entry for the MBR area for SDA?
How do I configure a separate Grub Config for boot section of SDH? Currently the boot on SDA points to grub on SDH.
I want to reconfigure the boot/mbr for /dev/sda. How do I specificy to which drive the grub customizer writes it’s content?
For adding a background image, sudo gedit /etc/default/grub and add the line, GRUB_BACKGROUND =” Paste the location of the file with the extension of the file.” In the GRUB_DEFAULT =” choose the OS that you want to alter it.”
Hi there, I have a problem to download and install grub customizer:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grub-customizer
Maggiori informazioni: https://launchpad.net/~danielrichter2007/+archive/ubuntu/grub-customizer
Premere [INVIO] per continuare o Ctrl+C per annullare
gpg: portachiavi “/tmp/tmpegsai_g2/secring.gpg” creato
gpg: portachiavi “/tmp/tmpegsai_g2/pubring.gpg” creato
gpg: richiesta della chiave 3F055C03 dal server hkp keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpegsai_g2/trustdb.gpg: creato il trustdb
gpg: chiave 3F055C03: chiave pubblica “Launchpad PPA for Daniel Richter” importata
gpg: non è stata trovata alcuna chiave completamente affidabile
gpg: Numero totale esaminato: 1
gpg: importate: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK
I can’t make nothing after.
Thank You
The output you offered prompts that you’ve successfully add the repository, all you need is to install grub-customizer using Synaptic package manager or via 2 commands: