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Graphical GRUB Menu

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As you know, when dual booting on OSX you get a nice looking boot menu, something like:

I was curious as to whether there is a way to replace the textual interface of GRUB with something a little more, "GUI"-ey. To an extent, to emulate the nice-looking OSX boot menu.

To change this:

Grub Boot Menu

to something nicer.

If it is not possible with GRUB, is it possible with another bootloader?

I have already tried using grub-customizer, but it only allows you to change the color of the text.

Does anything like this exist in the Linux world? Or is this Mac-only eye candy?

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answered 1 Year ago whipstder · Accepted Answer

Try BURG. I'm sure this is exactly the ticket. It is a themeble GUI overlay for GRUB & Grub Customizer can still administrate.

Brand-new Universal loadeR from Grub;

burg is a brand-new boot loader based on GRUB. It uses a new object format which allows it to be built in a wider range of OS, including Linux/Windows/OSX/FreeBSD, etc. It also has a highly configurable menu system which works in both text and graphic mode. Additional features like stream support and multiple input/output device are also planned.

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But, yes, as of comment, not actively maintained. Still I am not aware of an alternative, lets hope a developer picks up the slack...