On Thu 21 Apr 2022 at 05:30:31 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/20/2022 05:44 PM, David Wright wrote: > > 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. > > When creating a partition with Gparted the is a box titled "Label:". > I was referring to the content placed there. > > > Grub itself, of course, > > supports their use, but not the scripts that generate grub.cfg. > > IIRC several years ago I was told I could manually edit to display as > desired. It would be overwritten the next time update-grub was run. > > > > > 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. > > It's outside of my ideal dream. My desired result should be achievable with > a batch file calling update-grub and then using a routine to do the process > in the paragraph above. 'Bout time I brushed up on batch file prep ;}
I take it you want to replace (on /dev/sda5) with something like (on LABEL). How about this? e2label <device> will enable matching /dev/sda5 and other devices with a LABEL. Then a script to seach and replace (on /dev/sdaN) with the corresponding LABEL. The script could be run from update-grub and update-grub diverted. This looks like automatic to me. -- Brian.
