Thanks Colin for suggestions! I have now used used Ubuntu 12.04 (I can see 12.10 also available but did not give it a try) from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Core I have modified rootfs as per my requirements (incorporated my all scripts and customization into into it, and is perfectly fine), I have modified /etc/lsb-release, but unfortunately still menu.lst generated through update-grub, contain title as ubuntu. I suppose with this version update-grub should pick name from lsb-release as you mentioned, or i am missing something else also? Or you would suggest me to use 12.10, i want to avoid modifying update-grub, the reason you mentioned it will pick from lsb-release, is there some other files which i need to modify also? I have modified /etc/lsb-release, /etc/os-release, /etc/issue, /var/run/motd etc
Thanks, Saqlain. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 02:10:55PM +0500, Saqlain Abbas wrote: > > I have customized Ubuntu distribution, along with several customization i > > have also changed distribution name, it works well. Currently I use this > > cutomized distro rootfs with Linux kernel but whenever i do update-grub, > > the auto-generated menu.lst file do have original distro name, My > question > > is grub read which file to determine distro name, as i want to customize > it > > completely. > > The very old version of update-grub you're using hardcodes it, so you'd > have to edit the update-grub script directly to fix this. More recent > versions (anything from Ubuntu 7.10 onwards) pick up the title from > lsb_release. > > > Sample snippet from auto-generated menu.lst file > > > > title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-10-generic > > root (hd0,4) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet splash > > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic > > You are using a dangerously old version of Ubuntu; that looks like > Ubuntu 6.10, which has been out of security support for nearly five > years and by now is very likely to be full of vulnerabilities. Even the > version of Ubuntu that fixed the bug of not using lsb_release here has > itself been out of security support for nearly four years! You should > upgrade to something very much newer at the earliest opportunity. > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss >
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