I cannot fathom having my shit together to such a degree that my bootloader has a theme.
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Or not at all and that's why it has one. (procrastinating)
Ooh, fair point. We don't know that any of these options boot.
I completely forgot that grub could be themed… brb
You can customise your console login with /etc/issue too!
Woah, how did you make this??
Post ~~screenshots~~ photo please
I completely forgot that grub could be themed… brb
lol
That is kind of awesome.
I wish Debian’s default Grub theme was less ugly; I know I could change it (and I have on other installs, but I’m quite lazy about theming these days. Part of it is I have a laptop that I rely on for college and don’t want to risk any theme glitches, so I keep its Debian install as vanilla as possible.
That is kind of awesome.
I wish Debian’s default Grub theme was less ugly; I know I could change it (and I have on other installs, but I’m quite lazy about theming these days. Part of it is I have a laptop that I rely on for college and don’t want to risk any theme glitches, so I keep its Debian install as vanilla as possible.
The first time I tried doing it (alone, without watching the video), I broke the system ;(, had a boot problem, so I had to reinstall everything again.
Fun fact: you didn’t have to reinstall; you can actually boot up a live usb and chroot into your install to fix things.
Fun fact: you didn’t have to reinstall; you can actually boot up a live usb and chroot into your install to fix things.
That’s what I tried! But I couldn’t do it! I should have asked for help.
I'm sure you could have fixed it with GRUB Rescue. It's slightly annoying, but it isn't that hard to get booted from that. Once you get it to boot then you can fix things.
Don't give up so quickly next time. It's useful to learn how to fix it instead of just accepting failure and resetting everything.
I’m sure you could have fixed it with GRUB Rescue. It’s slightly annoying, but it isn’t that hard to get booted from that. Once you get it to boot then you can fix things.
Don’t give up so quickly next time. It’s useful to learn how to fix it instead of just accepting failure and resetting everything.
Yeah, man, I even went into live mode to try to undo what I did, but I still couldn’t manage it (I should have looked for help). But since I have backups of everything and my dotfiles, I didn’t worry too much (though I was pissed, I won’t lie).
This is so peak I'm going to cry
Nicely done. Im always too scared to break my machine by messing with grub. :)
Nicely done. Im always too scared to break my machine by messing with grub. :)
Yeah, the first time I tried it (alone) I broke GRUB and had to reinstall Arch (but I have backups of everything and my dotfiles). Then I followed the tutorial and everything worked out!
I would have gone with GrubCraft but awesome otherwise.
Omg I love this
Meh. I'll be impressed when it plays Aria Math.
(j/k, this is awesome, I love it)
I love it
Cool, I was using that (or one very similar) for a while also. I have changed that to a Fallout Theme for Grub some time ago.
Grub theming is such a great little feature
I have my system select the default option really quickly, so I don't see GRUB. This makes it tempting to not do that, but I think I'll accept the convenient option instead of the cool option still.
I have my system select the default option really quickly, so I don’t see GRUB. This makes it tempting to not do that, but I think I’ll accept the convenient option instead of the cool option still.
On mine, it’s already set to boot into Arch automatically. It shows in the bottom right corner: “Joining world in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.” It’s really cool, man!
I love this. Might steal it later if I'm feeling ambitious one day
Yoursgrub