Grub -> Grub 2. How ??

[bean123]

Ok, it's done now. The launchpad PPA contains binary packages for jaunty, karmic and lucid.

[bean123]

Thanks for the replies..



How do I get this ??? I like

This looks quite similar to the radiance theme, you should be able to get this effect with minor modification.

BTW, here are screenshots of available themes in burg-themes package:
http://code.google.com/p/burg/wiki/Screenshots

[Tom_T]

Possibly a daft question..

How does the theme know what OS's are installed ? or does it read from grub ?

[bean123]

Possibly a daft question..

How does the theme know what OS's are installed ? or does it read from grub ?

It relies on os-prober to detect installed OS (same as grub2).

[Tom_T]

Ok installed BURG as per:
http://code.google.com/p/burg/wiki/InstallUbuntu

Rebooted and got the nice screen with my OS's listed. (Ubuntu, XP Home & XP pro)

But only the XP's boot !! How do I get Ubuntu to boot again ??

Also a couple of quick questions:

Is it possible to edit the text that appears on the menu's ? Instead of XP Home / XP Pro, I could put the users names.

Can I password protect any entry ? In grub I have one entry that needs a password.

Any way to change the icons used ?

last one where do I find this theme ??
It isn't on the 't' menu !!

Thanks

[bean123]

Ok installed BURG as per:
http://code.google.com/p/burg/wiki/InstallUbuntu

Rebooted and got the nice screen with my OS's listed. (Ubuntu, XP Home & XP pro)

But only the XP's boot !! How do I get Ubuntu to boot again ??

You can press 'c' to open a console window, and enter these commands manually:

linux16 (hd0,1)/vmlinux root=/dev/sda1
initrd16 (hd0,1)/initrd.img

That's assumed your root is at /dev/sda1, you need to change partition number accordingly.

Once inside linux, you can edit /boot/burg/burg.cfg and change linux/initrd command to linux16/initrd16, this should at least get it booting.

I'd install a 9.04 system tomorrow to see what's wrong.

Also a couple of quick questions:

Is it possible to edit the text that appears on the menu's ? Instead of XP Home / XP Pro, I could put the users names.

Yes, you can edit the generated burg.cfg, change the text in menuentry statement, although it'd be overwritten each time you run update-burg.

Can I password protect any entry ? In grub I have one entry that needs a password.

See this wiki page:
http://code.google.com/p/burg/wiki/Authentication

Any way to change the icons used ?

Yeah, the icons are in /boot/burg/themes/icons, large icons are for refit, grey/hover icons are for sora and radiance, small are for other themes.

last one where do I find this theme ??
It isn't on the 't' menu !!

Thanks

It's not in burg-themes yet, I'd contact the artistic author to see if it can be added soon.

[Tom_T]

Many Thanks.
I'll look into this tonight.

How do I find the author of the image ?

[bean123]

Many Thanks.
I'll look into this tonight.

I just install 9.04 and burg seems to be working fine. Although it disable kernel output by default, so the screen might seem frozen for a while but it's actually running in the background. If you want to see all the kernel messages, edit /etc/default/burg, change the value of GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and add GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX option:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX="text"

And run update-burg to generate a new burg.cfg.

How do I find the author of the image ?

No worry, I will contact him to get the artwork.

[Tom_T]

Thanks bean123

I had left the PC for about 20 minutes.. just in-case, but it never booted Ubuntu.

Today I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on to a colleagues PC along side Vista.
That went fine, so we installed BURG. Worked fine..

I'll have a look at this later and let you know how I get on.
Thanks for reporting the image. I'd like to see that

[Tom_T]

reinstalled BURG last night and had the same issue with Ubuntu not booting.

Rebooted, press 'c' and typed this in to the command :

linux16 (hd0,1)/vmlinux root=/dev/sda3
initrd16 (hd0,1)/initrd.img

My Ubuntu install is sda3, so I'm hoping the above was right.. any how I got some error messages and it didn't work.

I'll try this again later today and will post the errors I get !
Regards