How to Customize Your Grub Screen With BURG Manager

By | March 28, 2011 | 3 Comments

burg-manager-mainEver since Ubuntu upgrades its bootloader to use Grub 2, there have been no easy way to customize the Grub screen. While you can still play around with the code and make changes to its appearance, it is no easy task for the beginner. If you are looking to beautify your boot screen, you will be interested in BURG and BURG-Manager.

BURG stands for Brand-new Universal bootloadeR from Grub. As its name implies, it is a bootloader based on Grub and it supports themes and various OSes (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X). BURG-Manager, on the other hand, is a simplified GUI to help you install and manage the BURG bootloader. It allows you to change theme, configure BURG and also boot from ISO.
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Snippet: How to Create a Mac Boot Entry in Grub2

By | February 12, 2010 |

If you have just created a dual-boot system with Mac Snow Leopard and Ubuntu Karmic and find that the Grub2 does not boot up your Mac, you can follow the instruction below to add the correct boot entry in Grub2.

Boot into Ubuntu Karmic.

Open a terminal and type:

sudo gedit /etc/grub.d/40_custom

Add the following to the end of the file:

menuentry "MacOS X Snow Leopard" {
        insmod hfsplus
        set root=(hd0,X) #change X to the Mac SL partition
        multiboot /boot
}

Save and close the file. Back in the terminal, type:

sudo update-grub

That’s it. You should now see an extra entry in your Grub screen. Scroll down to the last entry and it will boot into your Mac Snow Leopard.
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How to Set your Ubuntu Wallpaper as the bootsplash and login screen background

By | January 3, 2010 |

xsplash-mainIf you have noticed, Ubuntu Karmic comes with a new xsplash that allows you to set custom wallpaper as the background. Not only is it more visually appealing, it is also much easier to customize than the previous usplash.

In this article, we are going to do some thing more interesting – change the bootsplash and login screen concurrently when you change your desktop wallpaper.

Note: this is currently only possible with Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 or distro with xsplash installed.
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How to Remove or Change Administrator Password In Windows XP

By | December 11, 2009 |

winxp-admin-logoSometimes you need to access your administrator account without password because you have already forgotten it. If there is a guest account created earlier, then there is no issue here. Otherwise you will need to format your computer. Here we are going to discuss a technique which you can change or remove your administrator account password without logging into your administrator account. You will need a fresh copy of Windows XP installer CD. [Read more...]