Re: need hostname on menu

[J.Witvliet]

No, that would still be not enough:

Imagine installing centOS 3 times, one with gnome-desktop, one with kde-desktop, and one with yet another variant, but all using the same OS-release.

Your suggestion would still yield three identical labels...

From: "Humphrey van Polanen Petel" <hpvpp@optusnet.com.au>
Date: Sunday, 24 January 2021 at 01:52:49
To: "grub-devel@gnu.org" <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: need hostname on menu

Hi,

Currently, the grub menu has no option to display the hostname, but when on a dual-boot system there two systems of the same distribution it becomes a problem when the user is not sure which install is on which disk.  In my case, I had Ubuntu 16.04 and 20.04 on separate disks and grub just gave "Ubuntu" as the default so I had to close down the system and reopen the case to refresh my memory of which install was on which disk.  I solved the problem  by replacing

    GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`

with

    GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`cat /etc/hostname || lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`

which worked well enough.

However, it seems to me that it would be a lot more useful to add a parameter allowing the user to display the name of the install from /etc/hostname.

Humphrey

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