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

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CBM should support labeling an EFI boot entry so it's easier to identify a CL partition #177

Open bktan8 opened 5 years ago

bktan8 commented 5 years ago

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.

dorileo commented 5 years ago

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

ahkok commented 5 years ago

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 commented 5 years ago

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

ahkok commented 5 years ago

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

mdhorn commented 5 years ago

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.

dorileo commented 4 years ago

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.