[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Re-run Grub???



On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 08:31:40PM -0500, MillTek wrote:
> Now that I have Sarge loaded on one of my partitions, I would like to 
> re-run Grub so that it will re-scan the partitions to make the boot menu 
> (where you pick the OS you want to load).  Is there a way to do this??  
> If you know can you show me the commands. (I did go to the grub website 
> but they have an all-new grub and an older one and I haven't a clue 
> which one Sarge uses)

I don't either, since I don't use Grub, so I checked.

         carlf@nitpicking:~$ dpkg -s grub
         Package: grub
         Status: install ok installed
         Priority: optional
         Section: admin
         Installed-Size: 772
         Maintainer: Grub-Devel <pkg-grub-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
         Architecture: i386
         Version: 0.94+cvs20040511-1
         Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1)
         Suggests: grub-doc
         Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
          GRUB is a GPLed bootloader intended to unify bootloading across x86
          operating systems.  In addition to loading the Linux kernel,
          it implements the Multiboot standard, which allows for flexible
          loading of multiple boot images (needed for modular kernels such as the
          GNU Hurd).

So Sarge (which I'm running) has version 0.94, and judging by the snapshot
date it's the newest version.  

If you're using one of the front ends to apt/dpkg (e.g. dselect, aptitude)
it would also tell you the version number.

If THAT isn't possible for some reason, you could go to packages.debian.org
and search for grub in the Sarge distribution, and the web page would tell
you.



(Does anyone else have a tendency to type "grup" instead of "grub"?
-- 
Carl Fink		carlf@dm.net
Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum
<http://dm.net>



Reply to: