Comment 5 for bug 1182067

I did look and the partition name is there but not on the main screen. With each partition I have to go and check if it is the one I want in it's advanced menu. IMO, the partition should be in plain site. Again, right now the main grub entry is sdb9. I boot sdb8 and update the software... that update includes a new kernel. Now, the main menu item in Grub is sdb8. The user may not be aware a new kernel is installed or that the grub menu has changed. The next time they boot the Grub menu looks the same, but the order has been changed and the user would find that unexpected. They would likely boot the wrong partition first, and then on the next boot have to check each advanced menu to find the one they want.

This obviously a lot less than optimal.
(note, from included file I need to clean up all the extra kernels)

My first thought (or maybe a few down) is that a new boot loader is needed. One that has it's own configuration as part of it's it's own mini-partition. That way no matter which OS told it to update, or did the update, the user could freely name each partition and be sure that redhat/slackware/ubuntu or whatever would treat things the same and use the same names for the same partitions. The other possibility is to always order partitions on the menu in order of drive/partition.