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Re: Grub question

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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 ;}

Recommended reading that I wouldn't immediately find with DuckDuckGo?
Thanks.

> 
> Cheers,
> David.
> 
> 
> 

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  Re: Grub question "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-04-20 22:20 +0200
    Re: Grub question David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-21 00:50 +0200
      Re: Grub question Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-04-21 12:50 +0200
        Re: Grub question Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2022-04-21 13:50 +0200
        Re: Grub question Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-04-21 17:20 +0200
        Re: Grub question David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-21 19:30 +0200
          Re: Grub question Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2022-04-22 00:30 +0200

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