Saturday, June 22, 2013
10:44 PM

Tweak your startup with this nice elementary-styled bootloader theme

Fed up with your boring text-only bootloader? Here's an elementary-styled alternative you'll certainly like a lot! 

The bootloader of your computer is the screen you get when you start up your device, letting you choose which operating system you want to start up (that is if you have more than one operating system installed, for example elementaryOS and Windows).

Meet BURG, a graphical interface for elementary's default bootloader GRUB:


How to install this?

Install BURG

First, we have to install BURG. To do this, fire up a terminal and type in the following commands:
  • Add the PPA to install BURG:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/burg
sudo apt-get update 

  • Install BURG (if you installed your GRUB bootloader somewhere else than the default settings in your elementaryOS installation, you'll have to change the hd0 to the right partition. To list up all disks and partitions on your computer, type in 'lsblk' in a terminal):
sudo apt-get install burg burg-themes
sudo burg-install "(hd0)"

Congrats, you now have BURG installed on your computer! Go check it out by rebooting your pc! If you want the awesome elementary-ish theme, read further!

Install the theme

  • First download this zip-file: 

http://www32.zippyshare.com/v/7331949/file.html

(if the link is down, please let me know in the comments)

  • Then, right click the Files-icon in your dock and choose 'run as administrator'. 

  • Go to your downloads folder and extract the downloaded zip. 
  • Copy the extracted folder to /boot/burg/themes
  • Now open up a terminal and update BURG:
 sudo update-burg

    That's it! You now have the theme installed. Just reboot your pc and choose the theme by pressing 't' when your bootloader shows up. Then, select 'el_castillo' from the list and press enter. If you want to change the resolution of the theme as well, you can press F3 on the bootloader screen.

    All credit goes to bigRZA for his magnificent theme! I just modified the elementary logo so it would fit the new one :)

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