Themes for Grub2, and Booting Into UEFI Shell

[errant iron]

I'm pretty blank in terms of graphical Grub2 customisation. Can anyone provide me a simple guide to installing Grub2 themes, as well as, setting up an EFI shell boot option. Additionally, I'd like to know how to set up and load modules for the shell as well, modules I'm interested in being those which allow me to read and write ext4, FAT32 and maybe even btrfs filesystems. And how do I set up automation to load the modules as soon as I hope into the UEFI shell?

@errant iron chicken jockey https://github.com/Lxtharia/minegrub-theme

[errant iron]

you're welcome

[unkempt trail]

Reading the install script it seems to be the same as any other theme. Why not check out on https://www.gnome-look.org/browse?cat=109&ord=latest and pick theme.

[errant iron]

@unkempt trail https://github.com/Jacksaur/Gorgeous-GRUB

@errant iron are you dualbooting?

[errant iron]

No. I have systemd-boot and Grub2 set up, but I only have Arch Linux on my system.

[errant iron]

why do you have 2 boot managers installed?

and you don't need a grub theme if you are not dualbooting

[unkempt trail]

Isnt:

Edit /etc/default/grub file. Find the line starting with "#GRUB_THEME" and change it to "GRUB_THEME=/boot/grub/themes/[THEME_FOLDER]/[theme.txt]" (replace [THEME_FOLDER] ; [theme.txt] is probably OK ; remove "[]" brackets)

Run sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg```
Not working ???

The install scripts from those githubs seems to do just that.

[errant iron]

Grub2 was trippy after my first install, got a blank screen, so I switched to systemd-boot. Then I reinstalled Grub2 and it works just fine as long as it's first in the boot order. I also use Grub2 to boot into the live ISO because I don't have working USB ports (need to get those fixed), and I do at times boot into a minimal backup system or non graphical mode for fixes and stuff.

[unkempt trail]

Isnt setuping a theme for grub2 the same as regular grub?

[errant iron]

Haven't tried theming yet. Wanted to get some directions before I did so I don't end up messing anything up. The fixes are simple, yes, but I'd rather not inconvenience myself.

[unkempt trail]

Okay, well, some have install scripts but theres a vast selection on pling too and installing them manually is usually very straight forward. Worst that will happen is that the theme wont load because of bad syntax in the grub config file or the theme is borked and displays improperly.

It wont lead to an unbootable system unless you go out of your way to mess it up.

Worst case backup your grub config before running grub-mkconfig

For the rest of the questions Im not sure I can be of help there.

[unkempt trail]

Oh okay its sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg instead

So almost indentical process

The selection is nice but theres like... a lot of themes on pling too. You could spend hours looking at themes on the internet.

[errant iron]

Thanks