A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft(github.com) |
A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft(github.com) |
default=0
timeout=3
menuentry 'Custom Kernel' {
insmod gzio
if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,gpt6'
echo 'Loading Linux 5.10.172zeus ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.172zeus ro quiet rootfstype=ext4 root=/dev/sda6
}
menuentry 'Devuan GNU/Linux, with Linux 5.10.0-21-amd64' {
insmod gzio
if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,gpt6'
echo 'Loading Linux 5.10.0-21-amd64 ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-21-amd64 root=UUID=a788be97-7ba6-4c15-ad6e-e91d38604c39 ro quiet
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-21-amd64
}
menuentry 'Windows Boot Manager' {
insmod part_gpt
insmod fat
set root='hd0,gpt1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt1 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt1 4828-3FFF
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 4828-3FFF
fi
chainloader /efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
}Probably just because I grew up with it, but MBR and disk/boot management on Linux was so much simpler back then.
512 bytes of partition table + bootloader(well, the bootstrapping part anyway). Partitions had one simple, 3 character name in /dev. No weird FAT32 partitions full of mysterious files, UEFI stuffed full of unnecessary features, but you can be damn sure a desktop or laptop board is gonna provide all the ones that make your life harder, and none of the actually useful ones.
I'm sure there are lots of good technical reasons why everything needs a UUID now, and so on and so forth, but none of all this complexity solved any problem I actually had in the before times. It just added the problem of now having to read a buttload of documentation every time I even think about touching this stuff.
At some point a few years back, I wanted to switch DNS servers on my laptop running some ubuntu derivative at the time. resolv.conf was still there, so I edited it. Nothing happened. Eventually I ended up finding like 4 different files in various places specifying DNS. And only one was the right one to change. Others might do nothing or actually break DNS.
One of these days I'll probably throw up my hands, put my mobo in legacy mode, and install some bare bones, Systemd free distro. Maybe Crux Linux or Slackware if those even exist still.
Slackware just celebrated its 30 year anniversary two days ago [2] and still going strong without systemd ;) Well actually it now has eudev, which is the small unintrusive part of systemd which a lot of software these days has as a dependency. Everything is still done with rc files. Best of both worlds.
[1] http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/mbr2gpt.html
[2] https://www.patreon.com/posts/thirty-years-86196804 (There's nothing on the website or announce mailing list)
It just wasn't worth the headache on top of having to keep windows for work (many programs don't have a Linux option nor do they work properly in wine etc, and vm isn't reasonable for gpu intensive operations like video editing).
IMHO, systemd really messed up the ecosystem and the "Trust" value that Linux in general had built with me.
I'd much rather have to maintain nothing rather than something.
Leaving them to manage the config has worked a-okay for me, even with a cmdline that would cause shudders in most. grubby has been a frustrating introduction
If I were to invest any effort in my bootloader at all, it would be to get closer to the 'metal' through systemd-boot/efibootmgr
TLDR: looking at the GRUB config invokes a "why am I still doing this" emotion, I'd rather not
[1] https://gist.github.com/rversteegen/32bb0b2786ee1092762627f0...
The pain point is that when you can't boot for some reason, grub2 is significantly harder to reason about and fix than classic grub, lilo, systemd-boot, and so on.
My kid uses Grub all the time to reboot into Windows to play Minecraft Bedrock Edition, this will boggle his mind.
https://github.com/minecraft-linux/appimage-builder/releases...
And thus the "Extinguish" step is complete.
https://github.com/Lxtharia/minegrub-theme/blob/main/resourc...
https://github.com/Lxtharia/minegrub-theme/issues/18
I get the ideals are on point, but it doesn't look like the place to campaign about it.
Hopefully the author doesn't have any anxiety or issue about politely saying "The issue description doesn't look to me like a bug in my code." and closing it.
[1] E.g.: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/pu...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/plymouth https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-theme-luks/79792/2
I think the real game uses a cubemap so the camera is inside a cube with six textured faces which I guess should be easy enough to render if you wanted to do it properly
https://github.com/shvchk/fallout-grub-theme/tree/master
What is your favorite?
So with this theme, that menu for choosing which OS to boot looks like the Minecraft menu!
/s
I'll go get that later for my machine
* The java edition has always had a fairly limited render distance, although recently they split render distance and simulation distance into separate options which allows for higher render distance than in the past. (There are also mods like bobby, but it wouldn't help you find end cities: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/bobby)
* Bedrock edition, designed to be capable to run on mobiles, has the ability to run very high render distances on pc.
I kid, I'm generally fond of systemd - but there's so much