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how to tell GRUB to show the user preferred names of OS'es. Ubuntu 18.04
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I hate to break a taboo but the easiest way is modifying grub.cfg.
Create the script my-update-grub containing:
#!/bin/bash
# NAME: my-update-grub
# PATH: /mnt/e/bin
# DESC: Run update-grub and then rename menu entries
# DATE: July 13, 2018. (yah it's a Friday)
# Must not prefix with sudo when calling script
if [[ $(id -u) != 0 ]]; then
zenity --error --text "You must call this script using sudo. Aborting."
exit 99
fi
#sudo update-grub # Optional remove # in column 1
sed -i "s|Windows Boot Manager (on /dev/nvme0n1p2)|Windows 10|g" /boot/grub/grub.cfg
sed -i "s|Windows Boot Manager (on /dev/sda1)|Windows 10 original|g" /boot/grub/grub.cfg
sed -i "s|Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (18.04) (on /dev/nvme0n1p6)|Ubuntu 18.04|g" /boot/grub/grub.cfg
exit 0
- Change comment
PATH:to where you put script, probably/usr/local/bin - Change
Windows Boot Manager (on /dev/nvme0n1p2)to your menu option. - Change
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (18.04) (on /dev/nvme0n1p6)to your menu option. - Delete line with
Windows Boot Manager (on /dev/sda1)which probably isn’t needed. - Remove
#in front of# sudo update-grubso you don’t have to type that manually before typingsudo my-update-grub. - Make the script executable. In your case use:
chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/GrubTextEntries - After every kernel update, run
sudo my-grub-update
I tested this on my system first but, if in doubt, backup first using:
sudo cp /boot/grub/grub.cfg /boot/grub/grub.sav
Before and After
The images are a little skewed because I’m limited to capturing them at distorted 1600x1200 in Virtualbox in Ubuntu 16.04:
Before
After
