[Bug 11086] Kubuntu live says "Starting Ubuntu" on bootup

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Ubuntu (branding, kubuntu, livecd) | casper


mdz at ubuntu.com changed:

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          Component|kubuntu-live                |casper




------- Additional Comments From mdz at ubuntu.com  2005-08-02 05:50 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> I am able to observe this as well.  Looking at the grub source - The script
> update-grub in the debian directory has a function write_kernel_entry (for
> updating the /boot/grub/menu.lst file which hardcodes the title to Ubuntu : 
> "echo "title		Ubuntu, kernel $kernel_version $recovery_desc" >> $buffer"

These are separate issues:

- The "Starting Ubuntu..." message on the live CD, which is printed by casper
- The "Starting Ubuntu..." message on the installed system, which is part of the
initrd sequence
- The labels for the various kernels in grub

This bug is about the first item.

> This seems a bit cludgy and imprecise.... Any install without the
> kubuntu-desktop would be Ubuntu.  A cleaner solution would seem to be having a
> distroname set somewhere on the filesystem (/etc/distroname kinda like
> /etc/hostname ) that could be referenced by any script/prog wanting to know.
> This would help clear the way for future [A-Z]ubuntu's as well , so that each
> "derivative" wouldn't need to s/Ubuntu/[A-Z]ubuntu all over the place.

We already have such a facility (/etc/lsb_release via /bin/lsb_release);
however, for technical reasons this file must currently be the same in both
Ubuntu and Kubuntu.  This will change in the future.

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