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Trying to install Burg Bootloader. /boot/burg/burg.cfg missing

I am using the grub customizer GUI but I can't get it to work. I get this error message: burg-mkconfig couldn't be executed successfully. error message: Generating burg.cfg ... /usr/sbin/burg-probe:...
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BURG - Cant Boot computer because of BURG (PLEASE HELP!!) [closed]

So I am very new to this, I installed Zorin 7 on my Laptop and it works amazing, however after installing BURG and GRUB I get this weird message and I CANNOT BOOT MY COMPUTER WITHOUT A SPECIAL DISK (...
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How do I configure the entries that appear in the BURG menu?

I am experimenting with BURG to make the boot menu look a bit nicer (I am dual booting W7 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS). I managed to install BURG and selected my chosen theme, but I can't find a way to ...
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How to install BURG on Ubuntu 13.04 with Windows 8 dual boot?

I've dual booted my laptop with Windows 8 pro and Ubuntu 13.04 Now i want to try themes on the grub2 because the grub 2 UI sucks :( I've that BURG solves the problem for that so can anyone help me ...
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Can't update software

I can't update because: W:Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/bean123ch/burg/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found WHAT CAN I DO?
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Is there any stable fork of BURG available for Raring?

I had a look at BURG wiki for installing it on 13.04 and it said that BURG is supported for jaunty (9.04), karmic (9.10), lucid (10.04) and maverick (10.10). Is there any fork available for raring (13....
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GRUB (or rather BURG) takes 30 seconds to load

I installed a new drive today in my old computer. I'm running Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.04 using BURG as my bootloader. On my old drive grub/burg would load up instantly. However, now that I've replaced ...
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Burg + UEFI + Win 8 multiboot

Intro: After some trial and error I've managed to install Ubuntu 12.04 64bit on my Win 8 preinstalled Lenovo Ideapad Y500. So far I've had two problems: Grub detected the windows 8 install as a ...
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Installed windows 8 and it replaced BURG bootloader [duplicate]

Hey guys I was using Windows 7 with Ubuntu 12.10 and not installed windows 8 on the same partition as windows 7. But its replared my BURG bootloader and now its just loading windows 8. So what can I ...
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I can not remove the package burg

I can not remove the package burg and console show me errors: root@iskander-des:~# sudo apt-get autoremove burg Чтение списков пакетов… Готово Построение дерева зависимостей Чтение информации ...
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burg error after removing entries

Hi I installed burg lately using commands sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/burg sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install burg burg-themes sudo burg-install /dev/hda sudo update-burg and later ...
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I made a icon for burg in ubuntu 12.04 but icon not shown

I made a icon for burg in ubuntu 12.04 but icon not shown ??help image format .png and i set to rgb with size 128x128 px in photoshop but it is'nt working in my burg,,can anyone tell me how to save ...
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Intall BURG in fakeRAID UEFI system

I am currently dual booting Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10 in UEFI mode, on a system with a fake(motherboard) RAID 0 configuration. I first installed Windows 8, then Ubuntu 12.10 and used BootRepair to ...
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Graphical Themes for GRUB

I am a fan of BURG because it makes GRUB look pretty. However, it hasn't been supported in ages and doesn't work properly on UEFI systems. Has anyone out there made something similar recently?
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How do I handle grub rescue mode after installing burg?

I installed burg on my computer, and after restarting, grub comes up with the following message: GRUB loading. error: no such device: 9b16030c-08f8-4f5d-b228-63e13bca7839 Entering rescue mode... grub ...
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BURG for ubuntu 12.10 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I install BURG? Hey guys I just shifted from win 7 to ubuntu with dual boot. and dont like the looks of grub so would like to install burg..would like to know that burg ...
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Windows not loading from either grub or burg?

I'm very sorry if this has been asked before, but I cannot find a relevant post that could help me. Here's the problem: Windows 7 seems to be able to boot from it's own HDD and bootloader, but then ...
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How to get BURG on 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal)

I've been using BURG for years to get rid of the eye sore that is the standard GRUB interface. When I upgraded to Quantal, the repository does not contain the updated information. I.e. after I add ...
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Installing BURG on 12.10

A while back I was dual booting win 7 and 12.04 and had BURG running just fine. A couple months later I messed up my 12.04 partition and decided the easiest way to fix the problem would be to install ...
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How do I install Burg in Ubuntu 12.04?

When I try installing Burg, I get the following error: Package burg is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only ...
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How to restore grub2 after failed burg installation?

I'm using 12.04 and few minutes ago I tried to install burg according to this guide. I followed everything till the line burg-emu and there, I saw this minimal bash-like line editing is supported. ...
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BURG broken by Windows

I have successfully installed, using Super Boot Manager, BURG in a computer at my work. After I boot into Windows XP, BURG is no longer operational. The machine just boots to the BIOS screen, goes ...
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Broken BURG install after backup/restore

Long story short: BURG is stuck in text mode and I can't seem to get it back to the eye-candy. I have purged and then re-installed to no avail. I am running 12.04. The long story: I originally ...
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Burg Custom Icons work only with specific themes

I have made a custom icon for burg loader for my Lenovo Recovery Partition.I have made 3 icons : large_qdrive.png (128 X 128 pixels) small_qdrive.png (24 X 24 pixels) grey_qdrive.png (128 x 128 ...
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I messed up grub ubuntu 12.04

I was playing around with super boot manager and it's pretty gui features, and ended up messing up everything. I had it working really well before I started messing with super boot manager. Previous ...
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Is it possible to have music accompany the BURG screen on startup?

I'm brand new to Ubuntu, but I managed to get 12.04 LTS up and running on my Dell Inspiron 15r. Afterwards, I wanted a snazzier boot screen, so I installed BURG and chose my themes and whatnot. Now I ...
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Adding more already installed OS's to BURG

Can I add more already installed operating systems [such as BLAG linux or Fedora] to BURG [after BURG is installed] so they will appear on boot menu?
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burg problem after update

After an update of my kernel, the burg doesn't starts anymore, instead the grub came up when I've restarted my system. I tried update-burg, but doesn't helped. Any ideas?
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What are blocklists and why are they considered unreliable?

I'm new to Linux and was just wondering what blocklists are and why they are considered unreliable. Example of my problem: will@Will-PC:~$ sudo burg-install /dev/sda1 /usr/sbin/burg-setup: warn: ...
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where is my Grub?

Where is my GRUB located?? I want to install BURG now so i want to know where GRUB is. This is my partition table.Plz help. I tried The boot info script but cannot understand anything from its ...
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Help with BURG on 12.04

Can anyone tell me if this article for BURG Boot-loader is correct? I'm sure it is due to the fact that I have never had a problem with the site before. But I am always weary of things made for older ...
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Installing Another linux OS

I have Ubuntu with BURG was installed and I intended to install Backtrack to my computer. I'm afraid, if I install Backtrack, will it erase my Burg-loader. How to recover this BURG after installing ...
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Where to install Burg?

I've seen a lot of guides to install Burg, but they all say do: sudo burg-install /dev/sda And replace sda with whatever drive my boot information is on. When I do sudo fdisk -l, I get: ...
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Is it possible to completely disable Grub timeout?

I am setting up a dual boot install for my wife's computer. I would like to disable the timeout for selecting OS that defaults to Ubuntu so the computer wont boot without making a selection. (IE. ...
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Is there a basic guide to creating themes in Burg?

I have a basic theme idea I'd like to create in burg. I can find some information about customizing existing themes in burg, but not a basic tutorial that shows you how to create your own unique ...
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How do I restore the original Grub2 boot loader?

I wanted to try out the Burg boot loader, so I typed in the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ingalex/super-boot-manager sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install burg That was ...
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How to replace GRUB with BURG without overwriting MBR? [closed]

I'd like to install BURG but I don't want it to overwrite my MBR. That's because I've got two bootloaders in my system : Default Windows 7 in MBR Grub in /dev/sda2 With the first power button, it ...
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Removing Windows and Ubuntu recovery partitions (BURG)

I have Ubuntu and Windows installed on my computer and I'm using BURG boot loader. At the moment I have 4 entries in the boot menu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu recovery, Windows recovery and windows. This is quite ...
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How to install BURG on dual-boot Windows 7 / Ubuntu machine?

I'm relatively new to Linux/Ubuntu, but I've set up my new machine as dual-boot with 11.10 and Windows 7. I'd like to replace GRUB with BURG to get a nice graphical boot menu. The machine is set up ...
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Cannot run update due to a dpkg error with burg-theme-minimal-sir

I cannot run an update or indeed run $: apt-get remove due to a dpkg error with a package that's a part of super-boot-manager. Running an update returns: dpkg: error processing burg-theme-minimal-...
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How to install Burg theme in Ubuntu 12.04 (Alpha 2)? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I install BURG? Search on the web I cannot find any way to install Burg theme for Ubuntu 12.04 (Alpha 2) however there's a successful solution for Ubuntu 11.10. Anyone ...
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BURG Installation errors

Yesterday, when I booted my computer I got the Grub loading screen, then my BIOS in an infinite loop. I was able to use boot repair to fix this and boot into both OSes. Today I decided to install ...
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Operating System Not found, while booting

I installed burg bootloader, as soon as I start my computer it shows "Operating System Not Found", after I press any key on computer it goes to Option Screen without any problem, and from there ...
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Can I keep BURG on a triple boot with Windows 7 and Windows 8?

Having installed windows 8 already on virtual machine, I thought I'd like to see how it actually is, as virtual machine was a bit laggy. Windows 8 can be installed like any other OS, and it supports ...
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BURG Bootloader

I have just installed 11.10 on top of an existing Win7 Install, and I would like to try BURG, however I am curious as to how BURG handles distro upgrades. Will Burg break when 12.04 comes out? and is ...
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Burg installation error

I tired to install burg with following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/burg sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install burg burg-themes Everything went fine but when i run sudo burg-emu ...
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BURG updates, but doesn't show up in boot up GRUB screen

I recently updated the Linux kernel (via the Update Manager) to 3.0.0-13. I am running Ubuntu 11.10 using BURG. Everything loaded correctly, BURG updated correctly. But when I reboot, when the ...
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How to remove and reset everything about burg, grub and plymouth

I'm a newbie to Ubuntu, and I'm using 11.10. I used super boot manager and boot manager, and I messed a lot with burg, grub and plymouth till that whatever I do there will be no change to burg theme ...
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How do I install BURG?

I found the source in launchpad for 11.04 and 10.10 but I don't know how to install or compile it.
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Is it safe to switch my bootloader to BURG?

I have Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows on a single hard disk. After reading it became clear that there are some options to have the bootloader changed into a screen with just the Ubuntu and Windows icon. ...
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