Help with EFI Hard Drive names!

[gigabot]

Hi All,

I'm currently building an external drive with a few os installers and other data partitons. What im trying to do is have os 10.5, and 10.6 installer on there.

I have made my partitions, and restored the install dvds to their respective partitions.

I then renamed the partitions to "10.5 Install" and "10.6 Install" so i would know the difference as they are originally named "Mac OS X Install".

Now when I boot from the drive to the EFI boot options, I'm shown "Mac OS X Install" for both, which does not help as now I do not know which is which!

Could any of you geniuses shed some light on to this topic?

Cheers!

gigabot

 

[davidlv]

Hi All,

I'm currently building an external drive with a few os installers and other data partitons. What im trying to do is have os 10.5, and 10.6 installer on there.
I have made my partitions, and restored the install dvds to their respective partitions.
I then renamed the partitions to "10.5 Install" and "10.6 Install" so i would know the difference as they are originally named "Mac OS X Install".
Now when I boot from the drive to the EFI boot options, I'm shown "Mac OS X Install" for both, which does not help as now I do not know which is which!
Could any of you geniuses shed some light on to this topic?
Cheers!
gigabot

Try using distinctive icons for each partition

 

[larkost]

My guess is that you need to use the following command:

bless --device <device> --label <name>

With <device> being the device name or path (disk0s2 or /dev/disk0s2) and <name> being the name you want. Oddly EFI uses an image rather than really rendering text names, so if you want to get creative you can instead use the

--labelfile <file>

switch and supply your own image (the limitations and requirements are in the 'bless' man page).

 

[debu]

easiest way is just name the volumes on the desktop the way you want them to appear, then go into System Preferences > Startup Disk, select one of the volumes and click "Show All"

Do the same for each volume on the disk and you should be all set.