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Re: Customizing Grub menus

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On 12/08/2021 08:29 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
>> I have a machine set aside for experimenting with different configurations
>> of Debian. The default Grub2 menu will display OS(with version) and
>> partition designation in /dev/sdXY format.
>>
>> I give all partitions descriptive labels.
>> I want the Grub menu to display OS and the partition label.
>> I want it to update appropriately after using update-grub.
>>
>> Is there an appropriate tool?
> 
> You want to read
> https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#Shell_002dlike-scripting
> 
> and make changes to files in /etc/grub.d/ which will then be
> applied via update-grub
> 
> -dsr-
> 
> 

I see no reference for Grub being able to read a partition's label only 
its UUID.

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Customizing Grub menus Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-12-08 13:40 +0100
  Re: Customizing Grub menus Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-12-08 15:50 +0100
    Re: Customizing Grub menus Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-12-08 16:40 +0100
      Re: Customizing Grub menus songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-12-08 18:20 +0100
        Re: Customizing Grub menus David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-09 16:50 +0100
  Clarification Re: Customizing Grub menus Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-12-09 16:20 +0100
    Re: Clarification Re: Customizing Grub menus Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-12-10 11:50 +0100
    Re: Clarification Re: Customizing Grub menus David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-11 05:20 +0100

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