Re: Customizing Grub menus

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

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On 12/08/2021 08:29 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I have a machine set aside for experimenting with different configurations
> > of Debian. The default Grub2 menu will display OS(with version) and
> > partition designation in /dev/sdXY format.
> >
> > I give all partitions descriptive labels.
> > I want the Grub menu to display OS and the partition label.
> > I want it to update appropriately after using update-grub.
> >
> > Is there an appropriate tool?
>
> You want to read
> https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#Shell_002dlike-scripting
>
> and make changes to files in /etc/grub.d/ which will then be
> applied via update-grub
>
> -dsr-

I see no reference for Grub being able to read a partition's label only 
its UUID.