Re: Partition labels in GRUB2 menu?

[Richard Owlett]

Jordan Uggla wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Richard Owlett <address@hidden> wrote:
> > During Debian installs I use manual partitioning.
> > I give the partition being created a meaningful label.
> > I would like that label to appear in Grub's menu.
> > How?
> >
> > E.G.
> > I currently have 4 flavors of Debian Wheezy installed (different desktops).
> > Currently the menu shows long effectively meaningless string followed by
> > "cryptic" partition designator (sa6, sa7, sa8, or sa9). I would like the
> > designator to be meaningful (i.e. GNOME, KDE, LXDE, or XFCE).
> >
> > TIA
>
> Modify GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR= in each installation's /etc/default/grub ,
> whatever string you give for GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR will be used in the menu
> entry titles. 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Simple-configuration

That doesn't accomplish my goal.
I've reread .../manual/grub.html. I suspect GRUB2 cannot, perhaps 
by design, do what I want.

I wish, that after adding/deleting an OS, update-grub yield a 
grub.cfg of form:

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Label_sda1' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class 
gnu --class os {
        ...
        set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
        ...
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Label_sda6" {
        ...
        set root='(hd0,msdos6)'
        ...
}
menuentry "Label_sda7" {
        ...
        set root='(hd0,msdos7)'
        ...
}

menuentry "Label_sda8" {
        ...
        set root='(hd0,msdos8)'
        ...
}
menuentry "Label_sda9" {
        ...
        set root='(hd0,msdos9)'
        ...
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###


There are three implied restrictions:
  1. the first OS listed on menu shall be the OS on /dev/sda1
  2. the OS on /dev/sda1 shall be the default
  3. all additional OS shall be in partition number order