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Saturday, June 18, 2011

How to install Burg boot loader in Ubuntu?

hi guys.
in this article i explain about burg boot loader and how to install it.
burg is a very beautiful and interesting boot loader ,sometimes called sexy grub.
if u have installed Ubuntu on your system you are using grub1 or grub2 boot loader.
grub2 is default boot loader for Ubuntu since version 9.10. Grub2 is version 1.98 and later.
to determine your version use "$ grub-install -v".grub version 1.99 is default in Ubuntu 11.04(Natty narwhal).
OK.you can change your background image in Grub2 and change resolution and some other settings in grub2.
to know how you can change grub2 setting and make it interesting search in Google.
but to install burg instead of grub read following explanation.
you can see a few images of my burg boot loader at the end of this post.

at first you should add this repository.enter following command in terminal:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/burg

now update
$ sudo apt-get update

install burg and burg themes.use this command
$ sudo apt-get install burg burg-themes

now you should add burg into you MBR.(search in Wikipedia for more info about MBR).
write your disk where your MBR is there instead of "(hd0)".be careful about what you write.not boot partition but MBR.
MBR is the first 512 byte of any disks.for example my hard is /dev/sda and my boot partition is /dev/sda1.i write /dev/sda instead of "(hd0)".
$ sudo burg-install "(hd0)"

now update burg
$ sudo update-burg

now you can test your burg.use below command.
$ sudo burg-emu




to change theme hit f2.
to change resolution hit f3 , and for more info go to setting->help.

to manage your burg u can install burg-manager and graphically change setting such as changing background.
prerequisite for burg manager is "buc".install it then burg-manager and enjoy your new graphically and interesting boot loader.
if you have a question or problem during installing or after , leave a comment , i'll reply as soon as possible.