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

[Len Ovens]

I did look and the partition name is there but not on the main screen.
With each partition I have to go and check if it is the one I want in
it's advanced menu. IMO, the partition should be in plain site.  Again,
right now the main grub entry is sdb9. I boot sdb8 and update the
software... that update includes a new kernel. Now, the main menu item
in Grub is sdb8. The user may not be aware a new kernel is installed or
that the grub menu has changed. The next time they boot the Grub menu
looks the same, but the order has been changed and the user would find
that unexpected. They would likely boot the wrong partition first, and
then on the next boot have to check each advanced menu to find the one
they want.

This obviously a lot less than optimal. 
(note, from included file I need to clean up all the extra kernels)

My first thought (or maybe a few down) is that a new boot loader is
needed. One that has it's own configuration as part of it's it's own
mini-partition. That way no matter which OS told it to update, or did
the update, the user could freely name each partition and be sure that
redhat/slackware/ubuntu or whatever would treat things the same and use
the same names for the same partitions. The other possibility is to
always order partitions on the menu in order of drive/partition.

** Attachment added: "grub.cfg"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1182067/+attachment/3683304/+files/grub.cfg

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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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