Most Read This Week
- Canonical Drop Funding for Kubuntu 1
- Privacy Controls & Minor UI Tweaks Land in Ubuntu 12.04 2
- 'Der Spiegel' Helping German Readers 'Switch to Linux'3
- SDG Launch 'Military Grade' Tough Tablet Running Ubuntu 10.044
- Sublime Text 2 - A Fast & Fancy Text Editor5
- Ubuntu One Online 'Notes' Feature To Be Removed in Feb6
- "We’re Going to be Building Awesome Things" - Ubuntu TV Interview with Canonical's Will Cooke7
- Clean Up the Unity Launcher with Category Quick-lists8
- Orta Theme Ported to GTK 3; Here's How to Install It9
- Ubuntu Laptop Concept10
Like us on Facebook!
Latest Comments
Our Most Popular Tweets
Join the discussion with 32,984 followers@omgubuntu
Tag Archives: grub2
Live USB Sticking it to GRUB 2 [Video]
GRUB2 gfxmenu theming guide
BURG. That fancy themeable bootloader we chant about at least once a month, ever growing in popularity and continuing to rack up new themes by the week, but not everyone is happy.
OMG Video: Probing Your Box, Grub 2 and You!
If I had to pick one horror story that I get messaged about the most, it would be the dreaded bootloader. “It’s missing” or “I have a black screen of death..” and some people edit their grub.cfg without realizing it can disable you from booting at all, essentially turning your computer into a brick. Yay! [...]
Get Animated, Themed, Icon Only GRUB Menu Using BURG – now simple to use!

We all know that the GRUB loading menu that greets many of upon boot isn’t the most stylish or modern looking interface – even adding a poorly pixelated picture background can’t save it from looking lame.
Getting a gorgeous, animated and informative boot-loader is no longer a dream thanks to ‘Brand New Universal Bootloader’ (more commonly referred to as ‘BURG’.)
Fatal flaw connected to GRUB found at very late notice, never fear!

This bug report which was reported yesterday suggests that Lucid was about to ship with an issue that caused the secondary operating system to be missing from GRUB when installing in a dual boot setup; if migration assistant found anything to import. “When installing in a dual boot environment, the other operating system will not [...]
Simple GRUB Theming Script [Updated]

Bored with how GRUB looks? Well if you don’t have the nerves to try total boot pimper BURG, the following simple script will help beautify your boot. The following simple script dolls up your GRUB menu with an Ubuntu-like appearance. There are currently two styles to choose from – a ‘skin tone’ version that compliments [...]
How To Use Custom Backgrounds In Grub2

Grub2 – the default boot-loader for new installations of Ubuntu 9.10 – has some nifty new features – including support for background images and custom font colours. Whilst the previous version of GRUB could also support background images – it involved a hassle, some nifty navigation of folders and and editing some boot files. GRUB2 [...]




