Burg - we are changing a boring grub (now no problem with installation)

After the option of decorating the grub menu offered in Habré, I decided that it was better to leave it as it was. I adhered to my decision not for long. Soon I came across a wonderful utility called Burg. She promised to turn the boring black and white (or pink and blue, who has what) menu grubʻa in a beautiful "temazirovannaya" menu with icons instead of text! It is tempting. And after I saw the Burg menu screen in the style of Ubuntu 10.04 - all doubts were dispelled. Now I’ll share my experience and corrections, because of which you may fail if you follow other articles on installing and configuring Burg.

I want to note that the installation and configuration of this utility is much easier.
First, let's add a repository:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bean123ch/burg

Then I ran into a problem. The ubuntu key server did not want to give me the repository key. If you have the same problem, we get the key from another server:

$ sudo gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 55708F1EE06803C5
$ sudo gpg --armor --export 55708F1EE06803C5 | apt-key add -

Now update the list of packages and set Burg with the themes:
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$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install burg burg-themes

When installing Burg requests settings. Let's try to leave the field empty in the first window:



In the next window, too, leave everything unchanged:



Then we will be offered to choose a carrier, in the MBR of which burg will be installed:



Installation completed. Now you can check its correctness. Run the following command:

$ burg-emu

And we see the menu with the default theme:



And finally, we will cross our fingers and reboot. In the new grub press the key "t" and see the menu for selecting a theme. Choose, for example, "Radiance":



In Ubuntu, the whole kernel spoils the whole picture. Those. In burg, you will see an icon for each kernel and boot in recovery mode with it. Old kernels can be removed . After removing the kernels and updating grub, you need to update the burg configuration:

$ sudo update-burg

UPD.: To select a screen resolution in burg, you must press "r" - a list of available permissions will appear. In order for this to work, the following line should be uncommented in the / etc / default / burg file:

GRUB_GFXMODE=saved

UPD.2: Supported screen resolutions are limited not by the monitor's capabilities, but by the capabilities of the video card's BIOS. The standard resolution for my monitor is 1360x768, but in burg I can only select “square” resolutions (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, etc.). As a result, my burg began to look like this (clickable):



UPD.3: Permission can be set manually in the same / etc / default / burg in the same line GRUB_GFXMODE :

GRUB_GFXMODE=1360x768

But it did not help me. Experiment.