grub-install.in creates all lowercase labelled UEFI boot menu entries, which makes it look unpolished

[Benjamin Tegge]

I just dug through branch ~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu/trusty/grub2/trusty (revision 2363) and found that GRUB still creates all lowercase labelled UEFI boot menu entries (see attached photo).

I think one of the following lines in util/grub-install.in is the culprit:

    bootloader_id="$(echo "$GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR" | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | cut -d' ' -f1)"

and almost at the end of the file:

    efibootmgr $efi_quiet -c -d "$efidir_disk" -p "$efidir_part" -w \
    -L "$bootloader_id" -l "\\EFI\\$efi_distributor\\$efi_file"

The label (-L "$bootloader_id") should probably be set by another variable that is set to "Ubuntu" or something more descriptive that looks polished and sophisticated along with the other entries (e.g. Windows Boot Manager).

I know this is pure cosmetics and functionality should be above good looks.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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