Fed up with your boring text-only bootloader? Here's an elementary-styled alternative you'll certainly like a lot!
The bootloader of your computer is the screen you get when you start up your device, letting you choose which operating system you want to start up (that is if you have more than one operating system installed, for example elementaryOS and Windows).
Meet BURG, a graphical interface for elementary's default bootloader GRUB:
How to install this?
Congrats, you now have BURG installed on your computer! Go check it out by rebooting your pc! If you want the awesome elementary-ish theme, read further!
http://www32.zippyshare.com/v/7331949/file.html
(if the link is down, please let me know in the comments)
That's it! You now have the theme installed. Just reboot your pc and choose the theme by pressing 't' when your bootloader shows up. Then, select 'el_castillo' from the list and press enter. If you want to change the resolution of the theme as well, you can press F3 on the bootloader screen.
All credit goes to bigRZA for his magnificent theme! I just modified the elementary logo so it would fit the new one :)
The bootloader of your computer is the screen you get when you start up your device, letting you choose which operating system you want to start up (that is if you have more than one operating system installed, for example elementaryOS and Windows).
Meet BURG, a graphical interface for elementary's default bootloader GRUB:
Install BURG
First, we have to install BURG. To do this, fire up a terminal and type in the following commands:- Add the PPA to install BURG:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/burg
sudo apt-get update
- Install BURG (if you installed your GRUB bootloader somewhere else than the default settings in your elementaryOS installation, you'll have to change the hd0 to the right partition. To list up all disks and partitions on your computer, type in 'lsblk' in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install burg burg-themes
sudo burg-install "(hd0)"
Congrats, you now have BURG installed on your computer! Go check it out by rebooting your pc! If you want the awesome elementary-ish theme, read further!
Install the theme
- First download this zip-file:
http://www32.zippyshare.com/v/7331949/file.html
(if the link is down, please let me know in the comments)
- Then, right click the Files-icon in your dock and choose 'run as administrator'.
- Go to your downloads folder and extract the downloaded zip.
- Copy the extracted folder to /boot/burg/themes
- Now open up a terminal and update BURG:
sudo update-burg
That's it! You now have the theme installed. Just reboot your pc and choose the theme by pressing 't' when your bootloader shows up. Then, select 'el_castillo' from the list and press enter. If you want to change the resolution of the theme as well, you can press F3 on the bootloader screen.
All credit goes to bigRZA for his magnificent theme! I just modified the elementary logo so it would fit the new one :)
Thanks ! It's pretty cool.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenBut we have to do "sudo update-burg" after we add the new theme. Otherwise "el_castillo" will not show up when we press 't'.
Thanks for notifying! I changed the order in the post ;)
Verwijderennice!
BeantwoordenVerwijdereni tried to do it, but when i rebooting my pc appears "URG version 1.98+20100623-2.3
BeantwoordenVerwijderenMinimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible
device or file completions.
grub>
and i don know hoy to fix it
I followed this guide and nothing happened!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenYou mean you still got GRUB showing up instead of BURG? Have you installed BURG on the right hard disk?
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BeantwoordenVerwijderenIt worth to mention utility Grub Customizer (it detects burg), and usefull article: http://howtoubuntu.org/how-to-make-your-dual-boot-better-with-burg
BeantwoordenVerwijderenIt is compatible with Elementary OS Luna?
BeantwoordenVerwijderenyes it is :)
VerwijderenIts asking theme.txt file not found while selecting themes for BURG using Grub Customiser.So i uninstalled BURG and replaced GRUB.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenBut i dont want to leave it , help me on this
Why don't you just use the method I explained in my post instead of using grub customizer? :) Just restart your pc after installing burg and the theme, and press 'T' when burg appears!
Verwijderenafter "lsblk", how to determine the correct partition?
BeantwoordenVerwijderenIt is compatible with Elementary OS Freya ?
BeantwoordenVerwijderenyesss
Verwijdereni can't user command "sudo update-burg" it said "/usr/sbin/burg-mkconfig: 8: /etc/default/burg: Syntax error: "(" unexpected" how to fix this?
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