[Bug 1409209] Re: After installing Lubuntu from USB stick, GRUB mistakenly lists Lubuntu as Ubuntu

[Dave Kokandy]

I feel like this should be at the very least a Wishlist.

For the record, your "Consider this" argument is a straw-man. I never
suggested that something should be able to always update GRUB listings
if a user does something drastic like installing ubuntu-desktop and
removing Lubuntu.

I feel strongly that at the time of installation, GRUB should accurately
and precisely reflect what was ACTUALLY installed. Back when I installed
Fedora, for instance, my GRUB listed precisely what was installed -
including the version number and silly release codename. Installing
Lubuntu 14.10 - Utopic Unicorn lists simply "Ubuntu". Neither accurate
nor precise.

Put yourself in the shoes of a new user to Linux. After Googling or
asking a chatroom or something, a new user might ultimately decide to
install Lubuntu. After installing, being unsure what's going on, hoping
things went correctly, that new user takes out the CD and reboots, but
then  GRUB pops up saying "boot to Ubuntu or Windows" - gosh, that new
user might be really worried, because he or she tried to install
LUbuntu, not Ubuntu - the chatroom suggested he or she'd be better off
using something with lower resources.

I understand that I'm an unusual user who would have a Lubuntu partition
and an Ubuntu partition, but IMO any user would benefit from a more
accurate or precise description in the GRUB menu.

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Title:
  After installing Lubuntu from USB stick, GRUB mistakenly lists Lubuntu
  as Ubuntu

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  I installed Lubuntu 15.04 Vervet (Live image 2015-01-09) as a Manual
  installation (choosing "Something else...") to install the test
  Lubuntu alongside a machine that already has Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and
  Windows 7.

  After installation, Lubuntu was mistakenly listed as "Ubuntu" in the
  GRUB menu. The existing Ubuntu installation, which had formerly been
  labeled as "Ubuntu" was now (accurately) labeled as Ubuntu 14.04.

  To reproduce:

  Install Lubuntu alongside other existing operating systems using the
  "Something else..." option and configuring your partitions in the
  ubiquity installer.

  Expected result:

  Grub lists your new installation as "Lubuntu" and the other operating
  systems as their correct names.

  Actual result:

  Grub lists my new lubuntu installation as "Ubuntu" (only) and the
  other operating systems correctly (for me, Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS and
  Windows 7).

  Hardware profile: https://gist.github.com/e4e4d9d3e41ccf5c27c7

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