Follow-up Comment #4, bug #28581 (project grub):
I take your point about only one grub.cfg file being used for the boot;
however, it does seem like 30_os-prober is getting information from other
grub.cfg files or *somewhere* because on my box, if the grub.cfg for a
non-booted system partition
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #28581 (project grub):
If update-grub gets run on a system where /boot is not the one GRUB was
installed to MBR it won't change anything because GRUB won't look at that
grub.cfg
grub-install saves the partition number (or UUID in case of cross-install) of
the one which
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #28581 (project grub):
10_linux only creates menu entries for the kernels in /boot of the current
system.
The other ones are added by 30_os-prober and they clearly show the device
from which they are.
Note that your 64bit entries come after Memtest and Windows.
So i
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #28581 (project grub):
Thanks, Felix. I understand that there is some unique information already
present in existing menuentry lines. My system is an experimental system
where I am booting both 32 and 64-bit versions of Ubuntu 9.10. For now.
However, I expect to be
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