Grub vs Burg

[realzippy]

its probably very unstable

...why should it?It is grub in new clothes.

Burg also lets you choose between different kernels.This is a bootloader's intention...

[Elmer Fudd]

Also GRUB allows you to choose between kernels, sometimes the latest kernel is not always the greatest.

BURG not only allows you to choose between whatever kernels are installed but also to hide (folding mode) the, potentially long, list of earlier kernels.

I have had no problems with the installs that I have done with BURG other than this last (and only this last) kernel update that re-installed GRUB (easily fixed). BURG even fixed GRUB issues on a couple of machines (using the --alt install).

I started this thread to find out what kind of problems/complaints/concerns/stability_issues that people have had with BURG.

Techies don't need the more elegant face that BURG presents at boot but all the noobs that I have dual booting find it more comforting than the stark GRUB screen. (Incidentally all have ended up having me change the default to UBUNTU.)

I would like to see more than 1% of users on Linux. Compatablility/Installablity is the biggest issue but Appearance is part of the challenge.

These commands (activate this list with F1 or 'h')
are available from the BURG boot screen

* t - Open theme selection menu
* f - Toggle between folding mode
* n - Jump to the next item with the same class
* w - Jump to the next Windows item
* u - Jump to the next Ubuntu item
* e - Edit the command of current boot item
* c - Open a terminal window
* 2 - Open two terminal windows
* h - Display help dialog
* i - Display about dialog
* q - Return to old grub menu
* F5/ctrl-x - Finish edit
* F6 - Switch window in dual terminal mode
* F7 - List the folded boot items
* F8 - Toggle between graphic and text mode
* F9 - shutdown
* F10 - reboot
* ESC - quit from the current popup menu or dialog.

[Elmer Fudd]

In case of a kernel update ...

edit the /etc/kernel-img.conf once:
replace “update-grub” with “update-burg”

realzippy
thanks for this fix

[spiralx]

I didn't find it unstable. It is, though, quite new, and clearly a work-in-progress.

But it does work just fine. And looks a HUGE amount better than GRUB2's crude and DOS-ugly appearance!

The installation is a bit of a pain. This is what I found worked for me, in the end (thank you, Smart Viking):

http://code.google.com/p/burg/wiki/InstallUbuntu

There is a new Burg Manager, but I couldn't persuade it to install because of the ambiguity in the line "public key -O-":

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/b...-themeing.html

I un-installed in the end, and re-installed GRUB2 (using Synaptic Packet Manager), because it was noticeably slower than GRUB2, and wouldn't open my Win-7 partition, though there may be a way round that:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1458329