URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28581>
Summary: Add machine name to generated menuentry names Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: tarsa Submitted on: Wed 13 Jan 2010 02:58:59 AM GMT Category: Configuration Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: Feature Request Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Greg Tarsa Originator Email: ta...@nc.rr.com Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: 1.97 Reproducibility: Every Time Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: The new grub provides a lot of good features, but I would like to see it provide the machine name/arch as part of the automatically generated menu entries. My system is a multi-boot machine with multiple versions of 32 and 64-bit Ubuntu running on it. The currently generated menu lists do not provide any way to tell which are which. Some minor changes to /etc/grub.d/10_linux fix this. I have attached a patch file which has proposed changes. Here is an example. Before the change, all the generated menu entries look the same: which are the 32 and which are the 64 bit entries? Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic (recovery mode) Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-16-generic Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-16-generic (recovery mode) Memory test (memtest86+) Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200) Windows Vista (loader) (on /dev/sda1) Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic (on /dev/sda6) Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic (recovery mode) (on /dev/sda6) Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-15-generic (on /dev/sda6) Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-15-generic (recovery mode) (on /dev/sda6) Once the 10_linux is patched and update-grub is run from both systems, the list looks like this: Ubuntu-i686, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic Ubuntu-i686, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic (recovery mode) Ubuntu-i686, Linux 2.6.31-16-generic Ubuntu-i686, Linux 2.6.31-16-generic (recovery mode) Memory test (memtest86+) Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200) Windows Vista (loader) (on /dev/sda1) Ubuntu-x86_64, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic (on /dev/sda6) Ubuntu-x86_64, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic (recovery mode) (on /dev/sda6) Ubuntu-x86_64, Linux 2.6.31-15-generic (on /dev/sda6) Ubuntu-x86_64, Linux 2.6.31-15-generic (recovery mode) (on /dev/sda6) _______________________________________________________ File Attachments: ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed 13 Jan 2010 02:58:59 AM GMT Name: grub2.10_linux.patch Size: 1kB By: tarsa Patches to add machine name to GRUB menuentries for Linux <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=19478> _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28581> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub