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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4 More Ways to Clean Up Your Ubuntu Machine

By | August 6, 2010 |

ubuntu-cleanupIt doesn’t matter if you are using Windows, Linux or Mac, as long as you don’t maintain it, it will grow out of hand and become very messy. Previously, we have discussed 8 useful ways and Bleachbit to help you maintain a clean lean Ubuntu machine. This time, we are going to show you 4 more ways to keep your Ubuntu clean.
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How to Restore Grub 2 As The Main Bootloader

By | May 5, 2010 |

grub2-bootloaderFor those who are having a dual (triple or quad) boot system in your computer, chances are, your bootloader might break when you update one OS to a newer version. If you are using Ubuntu (with the new Grub 2 bootloader) and you installed Windows. The Windows bootloader will erase your Grub 2 and you won’t be able to boot in your Ubuntu. As such, you will need to restore your bootloader to Grub 2.

Note: If you are still using the Grub legacy, check out this post to restore your Grub.

Requirement: Ubuntu (Karmic or Lucid) LiveCD (download it from Ubuntu.com)
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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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Mastering Grub 2 The Easy Way

By | November 19, 2009 |

grub2-smallIf you’re running Linux, there’s a good chance your distro of choice uses Grub as the default bootloader. Grub has served well for many years, but it’s beginning to show its age. As with all software, it doesn’t take long before the latest-and-greatest becomes old-and-haggard. Features have been piling up in Grub without much thought going into revamping the core program. Eventually, this lead to a messy patchwork that no one really wanted to maintain. At this point, Grub2 was born. It’s a complete rewrite from the ground up using a completely redesigned structure. This new Grub gives us powerful features like conditional statements (if/then, etc), intelligent upgrades, and some greatly improved graphics.
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