Super Boot Manager is nice little program free for Linux which helps you to manage the Boot loader. Its graphical user interface is simple to understand and configure the booting options like default OS to boot, time of wait, etc. Though it is a simple to use program, you should know what you are doing, else it is very easy to run into problems, especially when dealing with Grub Bootloader. This guide works on elementary OS, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Debian based Linux distributions.
Installing Super Boot Manager Steps
Launch Applications > Terminal and copy paste the following commands one at a time.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ingalex/super-boot-manager sudo sh -c "sed -i 's/trusty/raring/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ingalex-super-boot-manager-trusty.list" sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install super-boot-manager sudo apt-get install -f
You will have to enter root password, press Y, press enter as needed during the installation process as indicated on-screen. After the installation is complete, it should be listed in the Applications or you can use super-boot-manager command from terminal to launch it.
I tried the above steps to install Super Boot Manager in Linux Mint 18.1
But for the first step, I get ‘This PPA does not support xenial’ error
What should I do?
The developer of the program has stopped maintaining it. Therefore it doesn’t support Ubuntu 16.04 and its derivatives. It still works on elementary OS because the OS is still based of Ubuntu Trusty. Linux Mint 18.1 has already been upgraded to xenial, so the utility won’t work on it. I tried to save the PPA sources manually into sources.list but the super-boot-manager doesn’t satisfy dependencies.
Don’t worry, you can still use other problem called Grub Customizer. This utility is free and works on Xenial. Here is the link:
https://www.fosslinux.com/1397/grub-customizer-graphical-interface-to-customize-grub-brug-for-ubuntu-linux-mint-and-elementary-os.htm
[email protected]:~$ sudo sh -c “sed -i ‘s/trusty/raring/g’ /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ingalex-super-boot-manager-trusty.list”
sed: can’t read /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ingalex-super-boot-manager-trusty.list: No such file or directory