What I want to do - I recently upgraded from OpenSUSE 12.2 to 12.3 and I notice I now have a new grub background reflecting that change. However, the menu choices all still say OpenSuse 12.2, I would like to change these to either read 12.3 or even better just plain openSUSE, as the background already gives the correct version.
I had a look in the grub manual, yes interesting and quite detailed, I gave it a skim over and thought, wonderful, but not worth the effort, I mean really? I only want to change one number in the test displayed, I don’t need to screw with timing, partitions or anything else.
Then I had a look in yast and it was soooo tempting to change the text there but I resisted as I am cautioned by the expression - If it ain’t broke, yadda yadda.
So it would be nice if grub just did this automagically when I updated the system, and I am sure it would say 12.3 on the menu items if I had just done a 12.3 install.
In any case is this something I can do or should I just live with it, and move on to fixing some of the other stuff that isn’t working atm?
You can change this in YaST->System->Bootloader. Click on “Bootloader Options” and change the “Distributor” text.
You could also directly edit /etc/default/grub with a text editor (“GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=…”) and run “grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg” to recreate the grub2 bootmenu.
Something went wrong during upgrade. When i did upgrade in the past version numbers did change.
I would retain oss,nonoss,update,nonoss update repos and disable other repos and do a zypper dup
Well, the text didn’t change for me when I upgraded to 12.3.
I guess it depends on whether you have changed /etc/default/grub (either directly or indirecly via YaST f.e.) before upgrading or not. If it has been changed, it won’t get overwritten by the new version, as it is a config file…
I think this bug was not caught in testing/pre-release phases because nobody would upgrade to beta versions but to released versions.
All beta- testing would probably on fresh installs.
On 2013-05-15 05:36, vazhavandan wrote:
>
> arvidjaar;2556891 Wrote:
>> No, it did not. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810055
>
> I think this bug was not caught in testing/pre-release phases because
> nobody would upgrade to beta versions but to released versions.
> All beta- testing would probably on fresh installs.
Indeed.
Sometimes I do test system upgrades, but it is so time consuming, that I
don’t do it often.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)