Names of Grub menu entries no longer say which version of Ubuntu
Bug #506768 reported by
Scott Ritchie
on 2010-01-13
This bug affects 5 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | grub2 (Ubuntu) |
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: grub
I installed Lucid Alpha 2 on a separate disk from karmic. Grub worked fine, and both Lucid and Karmic are bootable, however the menu entries it generated read like this:
Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic
As far as I can tell, this was a regression in Karmic, since Jaunty had menu entries like this:
Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-9-generic (on /dev/sdb1)
Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)
on 2010-01-13
| tags: | added: iso-testing |
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
on 2010-01-13
| affects: | grub (Ubuntu) → grub2 (Ubuntu) |
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : | #1 |
| Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan) wrote : | #2 |
Similar behaviour is seen when installing e.g. Kubuntu alongside Ubuntu. All the menu entries just say Ubuntu, albeit with different kernels. It's potentially very confusing.
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To be fair, the old versions were often broken anyway - they were calculated in the wrong way. Arguably it's better to have no versions than wrong versions ...