2009/2/4 Christoph Höger choeger@cs.tu-berlin.de:
The solution is obvious: put a .metadata in the bootable partition and fill it with stuff like:
OS_NAME: Fedora 11
I would call that a trivial task but someone with some "standing" in the community should ask other distributions to do the same in the same format (and encoding and other technical stuff that matters) in their own install process.
there is a cross distribution list on freedesktop.org for exactly this sort of interaction.
-jef