On Wed 20 Apr 2022 at 20:09:54 (+0000), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 02:31:30PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I have a machine set aside to test several configurations of Debian 11. > > > > Is there away to have the Grub Menu _automatically_ display the assigned > > partition name rather than than /dev/sdaN ? > > I wonder whether this changes if you use labels as references?
I'm not sure quite what you mean by "as references". > To be honest, I never notice - it's a menu which says Debian and a couple > of other options and I jut hit [Enter] almost automatically :) If by "assigned partition name" the OP means either of LABEL or PARTLABEL, then I think the answer is no. Grub itself, of course, supports their use, but not the scripts that generate grub.cfg. If you allow grub-mkconfig to use UUIDs (the default), then it's relatively straightforward to script their conversion to LABELS, using the information in /run/udev/data/b* to build a conversion table. Just remember that you have to pair each change with the option names, --fs-uuid → --label. That probably falls outside the OP's definition of _automatically_ displaying them. Cheers, David.
