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My grub theme (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by fajre@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

The background (versions) and the yellow text change with each reboot :D

https://github.com/Lxtharia/minegrub-theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgeouYCwGI4

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[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 67 points 1 week ago

I cannot fathom having my shit together to such a degree that my bootloader has a theme.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Or not at all and that's why it has one. (procrastinating)

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Ooh, fair point. We don't know that any of these options boot.

[-] Dagamant@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

I completely forgot that grub could be themed… brb

[-] SteveTech@programming.dev 20 points 1 week ago

You can customise your console login with /etc/issue too!

Photo of a Linux framebuffer console

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago

Woah, how did you make this??

[-] Ludrol@szmer.info 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Post ~~screenshots~~ photo please

[-] fajre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I completely forgot that grub could be themed… brb

lol

[-] data1701d@startrek.website 23 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] fajre@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] data1701d@startrek.website 19 points 1 week ago

Fun fact: you didn’t have to reinstall; you can actually boot up a live usb and chroot into your install to fix things.

[-] fajre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] fajre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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).

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 15 points 1 week ago

Nicely done. Im always too scared to break my machine by messing with grub. :)

[-] fajre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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!

[-] TurkeyDurkey@piefed.world 10 points 1 week ago

This is so peak I'm going to cry

[-] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Meh. I'll be impressed when it plays Aria Math.

(j/k, this is awesome, I love it)

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

I would have gone with GrubCraft but awesome otherwise.

[-] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

I love this. Might steal it later if I'm feeling ambitious one day

[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

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

[-] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago
[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Omg I love this

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] fajre@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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!

You can add a couple second delay so you at least see the theme on boot, if you don't mind boot taking a few more seconds.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I just don't care to wait to get into my system. It's not worth it to me. If this was customizing something I needed to see anyway I'd go for it, but I'm not adding time to boot up just to see this.

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