Default GRUB theme not working

Similar to this post https://forum.zorin.com/t/new-grub-screen/18146

Grub is just showing up as

I was trying to install some themes and then screwed some stuff up, I guess. I've already tried fixing the files I changed, but it still shows up as that. Is there somewhere a version of etc/default/grub <- might be off (writing it from memory right now). I tried putting the default Zorin theme, but still no effect.

Thanks

Did you run "sudo update-grub" after you made the changes in the grub files? Otherwise it will take no effect.

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Yeah went without any errors - and changes stayed

How look Your Grub File from /etc/default/grub? Can You open it and copy the Content here? So we can take a Look at it? Or if You want compare, it should look similar to that:

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

GRUB_THEME=/usr/share/grub/themes/zorin/theme.txt
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Well, that worked... The theme executable I used seemed to edit the original, which I was trying to work off of. Thanks

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