Re: How ro tweak Grub2 menu

[Dale R. Worley]

Richard Owlett <address@hidden> writes:
> I multi-boot among multiple configurations of Debian.
> Each partition has a meaningful label.
> Instead of (or in addition to) the device id (e.g./sda3) can the menu 
> display the partition's label (e.g. "Full Stretch")?

Just manually edit the first argument of the "menuentry" lines in
/boot/grub2/grub.cfg, which is the string that will be displayed in the
menu.  A typical line looks like this:

menuentry 'Fedora 19 (3.14.27-100.fc19.x86_64) (Hobgoblin00-RootF19)' --class 
gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 
'osprober-gnulinux-/vmlinuz-3.14.27-100.fc19.x86_64--188c0958-d8f1-41dd-a64c-d7f468c80737'
 {

which displays:

    Fedora 19 (3.14.27-100.fc19.x86_64) (Hobgoblin00-RootF19)

Of course, (1) check your work carefully, (2) make a backup copy of
grub.cfg before editing it, and (3) have Knoppix or some other rescue
method available first.

Dale