[Bug 1182067] Re: The grub menu does not show ubuntu flavour

[Len Ovens]

I have Ubuntu Studio installed, grub shows Ubuntu as it's menu item
Thats ok because that is the only ubuntu on the drive. Older versions on
different partitions show up as the version number.

Now I install xubuntu. Grub now shows Ubuntu, Ubuntu and older versions.
Which ubuntu is studio and which is xubuntu? Now I install lubuntu...
These are all 13.10 dailties BTW, and grub shows three selections that
are the same. no partitions numbers, No way to differentiat three
partitions. I know that the top one in Lubuntu because I installed that
last.... until I am working in xubuntu (should I be able to find it on
the grub menu... probably by chance) and the kernel is updated... now
xubuntu is the top selection in grub. However, the user may not even
know that the kernel was replaced as the software updater by default
does not display what is being updated and kernel updates are not the
only changes that ask for reboot. The user now has no idea what grub
selection is what.

Further investigation reveals that there is really no indication of what
flavour this is.  now I understand a user may install the desktop meta
from another flavour and have more than one kind of DE or a multi-
flavour install, but I would think the flavour of the original ISO
install would make sense.

Perhaps in /etc/os-release the version instead of being "13.10, Saucy
Salamander" could be "flavour 13.10, Saucy Salamander" on the iso
install.

In any case the script that generates the grub menu should make sure all
entries are unique. It should add a partition number if nothing else.

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Title:
  The grub menu does not show ubuntu flavour

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  When more than one flavour of ubuntu is installed on a system the user
  can't tell which one is which. This may be a problem with flavour
  indentification.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: grub-common 2.00-14ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.13-lowlatency 3.8.8
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-lowlatency i686
  ApportVersion: 2.10.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon May 20 06:30:13 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-17 (3 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha i386 (20130516)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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