On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: > During Debian installs I use manual partitioning. > I give the partition being created a meaningful label. > I would like that label to appear in Grub's menu. > How? > > E.G. > I currently have 4 flavors of Debian Wheezy installed (different desktops). > Currently the menu shows long effectively meaningless string followed by > "cryptic" partition designator (sa6, sa7, sa8, or sa9). I would like the > designator to be meaningful (i.e. GNOME, KDE, LXDE, or XFCE). > > TIA
Modify GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR= in each installation's /etc/default/grub , whatever string you give for GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR will be used in the menu entry titles. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Simple-configuration -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
