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Super Mario Font

N64 Font

(pls dont ask why the countdown placement is different)

Installation

Pop!_OS

sudo apt install grub-efi grub2-common grub-customizer

sudo grub-install

sudo cp /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/grub.efi /boot/efi/EFI/pop/grubx64.efi

Now open the grub-customizer and click on Change Enviroment and change the OUTPUT_FILE variable to /boot/efi/EFI/pop/grub.cfg

Check the "Save this Configuration" than hit Apply and Save

Archlinux

sudo pacman -S grub

sudo grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=esp --bootloader-id=GRUB

Stolen from the Archlinux wiki, have no time to try it myself.

Theme

git clone https://github.com/Crylia/dotfiles.git

cd dotfiles/grub/

sudo cp -r * /boot/grub/

This will copy all the files into your grub directory.

Now open the grub-customizer

• Go to Appearance settings
• Theme and select mario
• Hit Save than reboot and enjoy your new bootloader!

Change Font

sudo nano /boot/grub/themes/mario/theme.txt

Uncomment the item font = "" and dont forget to uncomment the old unwanted font.

ctrl + o, enter, ctrl + x to save and leave nano

sudo update-grub

And reboot :)

Note / Sources

I got the background image somewhere from google image search and modified it.

The font is from https://www.dafont.com/mario64.font it belongs to Nintendo The Super Mario Font was created by Patrick H. Lauke. and distributed by Fontstruct https://fontstruct.com