October 24, 2014

6 Best BURG Themes and How to Install BURG Themes in Ubuntu

I've been frustrated with the new boot loaders contained in Ubuntu Mate and others lately. So here is an old post on how to customize the bootloader menu with Burg. An update for Ubuntu 14.04 is posted after.

Posted by Manuel Jose on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 / Labels: , ,

BURG is basically a boot loader for Linux based on GRUB. Burg has a highly configurable menu system which works in both text and graphic mode. Simply put, BURG can be extensively customized and there are a number of good quality BURG themes available all over the web for free. Lets find out the best among them and also see how to install BURG and the following BURG themes in Ubuntu 11.10.
top burg themes

Dark Shine BURG theme
Super Boot Manager Lets You Install/Manage all the Above BURG Themes & More!
  • Many BURG themes listed above has specific scripts to install it as your default BURG theme. But Super Boot Manager has all the above themes listed in it and it is quite easy to install and change BURG themes in your Ubuntu 11.10 using Super Boot Manager.
  • Warning: Playing around with GRUB bootloader can be tricky and can sometimes cause irrecoverable damages, you should know what you are doing.
  • Lets install BURG in Ubuntu 11.10 first of all. Do the following in Terminal.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/burg 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install burg burg-themes
  • Done. Now install BURG to your MBR(Master Boot Record). Substitute 'hd0' with appropriate drive information in the following command if needed(you don't have to do that under normal circumstances).
sudo burg-install "(hd0)"
  • Now, update BURG.
sudo update-burg
  • There are some pre-installed BURG themes that comes with the package, you can test them and install them using the following command.
sudo burg-emu
BURG themes Ubuntu 11.10
  • F2 to browse through themes and F1 to see full list of options. Done.
Install Super Boot Manager in Ubuntu 11.10, Linux Mint 12
  • Do the following in Terminal.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ingalex/super-boot-manager 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install super-boot-manager
  • Done. Now launch Super Boot Manager and select Burg Manager - Themes.
super boot manager for managing burg themes
  • Select the theme you like and double click on it. That particular BURG theme will be automatically downloaded now. Apply the changes and you are done. 
Theoretically speaking, this should work. But unfortunately, I had to use 'sudo burg-emu' command (from above) every time to change to the theme just downloaded using Super Boot Manager app. Good luck and thanks for reading.

Source: http://www.techdrivein.com/2011/12/6-best-burg-themes-and-how-to-install.html

UPDATE
BURGbootloader setup and configuration tutorial - Ubuntu 14.04




BURG on Ubuntu... let's get this going

Hi, this is a quick and easy tutorial on setting up BURG in Ubuntu linux. This tutorial is written specifically based on Ubuntu 14.04.

Warning : Changing the bootloader can be a dangerous operation if unexperienced. If you fail setting up the bootloader correctly your operating system may not boot. Continue with this tutorial at own risk.

Basic install

1. Firstly, we're going to want to add the repository for burg, then install it. Open a terminal ( Ctrl + t ) and execute the following commands.


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/burg
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install burg burg-themes
 
 
2. Now that we have BURG installed, it's time to configure it as our bootloader. Execute the following commands ( remember to substitute "hd0" with your correct boot drive ).


sudo burg-install "(hd0)"
sudo update-burg
sudo burg-emu
 
 
After executing burg-emu, a preview of your bootloader should open. Your bootloader should now be installed and setup as default in front of GRUB. You can, at this point, optionally reboot to test it out.

Depending on your install of Ubuntu, you may have more than one boot and one recovery image. These will all display on boot unless disabled. If you are not getting redundant options when you run sudo burg-emu , skip to the next part of the tutorial.
Fix redundant options:


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grub-customizer
 
 
Open grub customizer after install and disable all images that you don't want as boot options. Run  

sudo burg-emu

to check your changes.

Install BURG theme

We alreadly installed some default themes earlier. To check them out and/or enable them, run

 sudo burg-emu

then click F3.
To install a third party theme:
Copy your downloaded theme to /boot/burg/themes then update burg.

sudo update-burg

You should now be able to preview and enable your theme from the burg-emu theme menu.

Fix resolution issue

On some installs, BURG does not automatically scale to the size of your monitor. We will configure it manually in the following.
First, we'll need to install super boot manager. At the time of writing, the repo has not deployed it for Ubuntu 14.04. We'll use a little trick to get around that.


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ingalex/super-boot-manager
sudo sh -c "sed -i 's/trusty/raring/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ingalex-super-boot-manager-trusty.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install super-boot-manager
sudo apt-get install -f


Now finally, launch super boot manager.
Choose Burg-manager > parameters > change resolution . You can also change the Default boot device as well as make some other nice customizations with this program. Run sudo burg-emu to check the results of your changes.

Source: http://develop.alpdesigns.ch/pages/ubuntu/brug-and-theme-configuration.html

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