Thanks for reporting this interesting issue. That's quite some corner
case, when you have things from different distributions in the same
partition. I am afraid Gutsy will treat all kernels in its /boot as its
own. How should it know that a kernel belongs to some other
distribution, and not to itself? Maybe you can move the other kernels to
another sub-directory? Or should all distributions take equal part and
all administer the same /boot hierarchy?

It would be possible to add a new Debian configuration variable
"#title=" so that you can override the lsb_release, but I don't know if
it's worth it.

To do this properly, update-grub would have to check the root= argument
of each kernel entry and look up that partition (if possible) and see
what is installed on it... Another possibility would be to use dpkg -S
to recognize its own kernel, and just write "GNU/Linux" for the others.

I always install grub on each root partition and chainload between them,
and I didn't think about your situation. For the moment I think the
advantage of newbies seeing their Ubuntu version in the boot menu
outweighs the extra hassle for advanced users like you.

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[gutsy] kernel's from different distributions all have the same title
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