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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon clearlinux

CBM should support labeling an EFI boot entry so it's easier to identify a CL partition

Open bktan8 opened this issue 5 years ago • 6 comments

Right now, if there are multiple partitions on a hard drive, it's hard to know which one is Clear Linux or some other OS. It would be nice if CBM can label a Clear partition with the version number as well.

bktan8 avatar Sep 19 '19 00:09 bktan8

What's the point of having the version number in the label?

dorileo avatar Sep 23 '19 17:09 dorileo

The version number will continuously change, and therefore be wrong most of the time.

No issue with the installer labelling the rootfs during installation, but this should not be a clr-boot-manager thing.

ahkok avatar Sep 23 '19 17:09 ahkok

Ah you mean label the menu entry. Sorry, misread.

ahkok avatar Sep 23 '19 17:09 ahkok

I'd think that the boot menu labels already properly distinguish between Clear Linux OS and other OSs....

ahkok avatar Sep 23 '19 17:09 ahkok

I believe @bktan8 complaint has to do with this image: multiOS

Note that cbm added three entries -- all show precisely the same even though they are booting differently. Also, this does not truly identify the OS as Clear Linux* OS.

mdhorn avatar Sep 23 '19 18:09 mdhorn

In the commit c4e4903b4623682b0c2914a7eb54aef9ef6b63c9 I introduced a build flag to do that, we've not changed the packaging yet to pass the flag with something like "Clear Linux OS". I assume this would be enough.

dorileo avatar Jan 31 '20 00:01 dorileo