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Live USB Sticking it to GRUB 2 [Video]

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Is your Master Boot Record royally messed up? Who needs Live CDs? This video tutorial will show you how you can use an Ubuntu Live USB drive to do a complete reinstall of GRUB, even when your boot device is inaccessible.

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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.

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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! [...]

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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’.)

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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