How do I rename distros in my grub menu?

[m654321]

I have created a multiboot set-up on a GPT disk, made up of around 15 distros from the 'Ubuntu family', LL being in charge of the grub list. I have set this up on a cheap second-hand Dell Latitude D630, using this for demonstration purposes to show family & friends the wealth of choice available with Linux (Ubuntu-based) operating systems.

The problem is that some of these distros are named incorrectly in the grub screen list, for example:

ElementaryOS Freya is misnamed as Ubuntu 14.04; Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 is misnamed as Ubuntu 14.04, etc...

As I've already got the actual Ubuntu 14.04 installed, and this is of course listed correctly as Ubuntu 14.04, you can see the confusion that arises!

AustinTexas very kindly offered the following solution for renaming the distros, but it doesn't seem to have worked for me: maybe I'm doing something wrong? I notice the menuentry is repeated five times for each distro in the grub.cfg file.  Do I edit each one of the five mentions for each distro or just edit the first menuentry mention?  I have actually tried both but without success - I seem unable to rename the distros, as my efforts haven't led to a change in the distro names listed on the grub screen.  This was AustinTexas' method but I was unable to get it to work...

Editing the titles for the Grub menuentries is a chore.
You would have to open /boot/grub/grub.cfg in your text editor.
Code: [Select]
gksudo leafpad /boot/grub/grub.cfg Then find each menuentry you want to edit.  Anything inside the 'quote' marks can be edited.
EXAMPLE:
menuentry 'Korora release 23 (Coral) (on /dev/sda4)' --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os
can be changed to:
menuentry 'Korora 23 on /dev/sda4' --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os

Then after your edits are complete, save a copy of /boot/grub/grub.cfg to make editing a bit easier the next time you have to do it - which will be every time you do "sudo update-grub".

Any help on this one is very much appreciated, as always.
Cheers, Mike

[Wirezfree]

Hi,

It's been mentioned on the Forum a few times, and I have used it once for a friends "triple boot"

Grub Customizer

Some info here and there is stuff on Youtube like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwwDFLrkhVk


GL, see if it helps

[trinidad]

Some distros will name different distros correctly on the grub screen, others will not, deferring to Ubuntu versions. Is Debian Jessie among the distros you have loaded, or Kali linux? It has been my experience that they both name the distros more familiarly than Ubuntu based grub screens. Just a thought. Both Kali and Jessie named each other and Linux Lite, and LXLE, and Kubuntu correctly on the grub screens for me, while Kubuntu, Linux Lite, and LXLE did not, only deferring to Ubuntu versions., and the Kali screen and the Jessie screen are much nicer looking. Just a thought.
Trinidad

[trinidad]

Also: in any case if you have Jessie already installed, you can easily edit everything from there. I suspect that the bright blue screen of the linux lite grub list is a jibe at the windows blue screen of death by the developers.
T

[m654321]

This thread has now been solved, using the programme grub-customizer.
Details on how to install grub-customizer, using the terminal, can be found on the following link, the solution being provided byOttawagrant:

https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/other...-in-ll3-0/


Cheers
Mike