[quote="Newbie_Bob, post:1, topic:19845"]along with "plain vanilla" Ubuntu
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Bob
That might mean something to you, but maybe you could expand on that comment
eg....you have only one drive
partition one as distro=Ubuntu (not Mate)
partition two as distro=Ubuntu-Mate
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post the results of this command pls
$ sudo blkid
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UNTIL you get a better reply I urge you not to attempt to modify scripts
at /etc/grub.d especially the one called 10_linux
Its normally OK to modify /etc/default/grub
but in any case....your change will not take effect until you run
$ sudo update-grub
- so until you get a reply.....I plan to create a 40_custom script for you
Do you know when you look at your blkid output you are likely to see UUIDs
but 40_custom can use LABELs and its more intuitive
let me give an example THESE ARE MINE NOT ORIGINAL POSTERS
/dev/sda1: LABEL="s1" UUID="ec2e1b95-56d0-4893-95a7-0f52445dcdff" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="a35f4ef3-01"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="sswap" UUID="0456b0ee-6be6-4356-8dc1-386ee06e1528" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="a35f4ef3-02"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="s3" UUID="4008f440-7790-4da4-a36e-4b8f7855114e" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="a35f4ef3-03"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="t1" UUID="22d92423-8eab-4785-820c-a135115baece" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="378f30fb-01"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="3cbab6cd-2b68-4d72-b1bf-9ea37f1b828f" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="378f30fb-02"
/dev/sdb3: LABEL="t3" UUID="992321db-95a9-4877-ac3b-56c8eeb078c8" TYPE="ext4" PTTYPE="dos" PARTUUID="378f30fb-03"
/dev/sdb4: LABEL="t4" UUID="822402a3-1910-4514-8cc0-20983a81d20a" TYPE="ext4" PTTYPE="dos" PARTUUID="378f30fb-04"
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you can change your labels with a sudo command
$ sudo e2label /dev/sda1 my-new-label
$ sudo e2label /dev/sda1
(should report new label name)
be aware....I am assuming you are on an ext2 ext3 or ext4 file system