{"id":2993,"date":"2014-02-11T09:28:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T09:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2014-12-26T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T14:58:00","slug":"beautiful-boot-menu-burg-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/beautiful-boot-menu-burg-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautify Your Boot Menu with Burg in Ubuntu or Linux Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bored with the default Grub bootloader? You may give Burg a try. Burg is a Grub based boot loader which works in both text and graphic mode. There are quite a few themes so that you can always make your boot menu beautiful.<\/p>\n

Below is the burg boot menu with Metro theme.<\/p>\n

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Install Burg:<\/b><\/p>\n

Press Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on your keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one to install Burg from PPA:<\/p>\n

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:n-muench\/burg\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install burg burg-themes<\/pre>\n
UPDATE:<\/b> Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, and derivatives are added support!<\/i><\/p>\n
So far, the PPA supports Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04 and their derivatives.<\/p>\n
While the installing process, click OK<\/b> to answer all questions. In the below screen, you need to press the Space<\/b> key first to select your disk name and Tab<\/b> key to select OK.<\/p>\n
\"install<\/a><\/p>\n
Install Theme for burg:<\/b><\/p>\n
There are 16 themes available by default. You can download more themes at deviantart.com and install them via following steps:<\/p>\n
1. Download the theme, Metro as example, at deviantart page<\/a><\/p>\n
2. Extract the theme package and put the result folder into \/boot\/burg\/themes\/<\/b> directory. Run below command in the terminal to open file browser with root, then do the copy and paste things.<\/p>\n
sudo nautilus<\/pre>\n
3. The theme misses Linux Mint logo. Download the below icons and put them into \/boot\/burg\/themes\/Metro\/icons\/<\/b> if need.<\/p>\n\n\n
\"normal_linuxmint\"<\/a>
normal_linuxmint<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
Then edit the icons<\/b> file in the same folder and added the line below to make the icons work:<\/p>\n
-linuxmint { image = “$$\/normal_linuxmint.png:$$\/hover_linuxmint.png” }<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
4. Update burg boot loader:<\/p>\n
sudo update-burg<\/pre>\n
5. Now you’re able to test your boot entries via:<\/p>\n
sudo burg-emu<\/pre>\n
In testing mode, press F2 to switch the themes. You can also press F3 to change resolution in the real burg boot menu.<\/p>\n
Tips<\/b>: You can edit the “menuentry” sections in “\/boot\/burg\/burg.cfg” to remove unwanted menu entries.
\nAlso uncomment “GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY=”true”” in “\/etc\/defaut\/burg” will hide the recovery mode.<\/p>\n
Restore Grub:<\/b><\/p>\n
To revert back to original grub boot loader, run the command below in terminal:<\/p>\n
sudo grub-install \/dev\/sda<\/pre>\n
\/dev\/sda is the disk name (Run sudo fdisk -l<\/b> to check it out).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bored with the default Grub bootloader? You may give Burg a try. Burg is a Grub based boot loader which works in both text and graphic mode. There are quite a few themes so that you can always make your boot menu beautiful. Below is the burg boot menu with Metro theme. Install Burg: Press […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1026,1025,1027],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-beautify-boot-loader","tag-burg","tag-burg-ppa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}