On 07/01/2010 01:30 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
What's the easiest way for a shell script to tell if grub version 1
is installed? It is important to distinguish grub version 1 from
grub version 2. For example, can I just do this?
if [ -f /boot/grub/menu.lst ];then
blah
blah
blah
fi
Or does that file exist in grub version 2 as well? I don't have
grub version 2 installed on any of my machines; so I can't easily
determine this.
Maybe there are magic numbers in the MBR? dd the first few KB of the device into a data file and look at it with a binary editor.
# dd if=/dev/sda of=first_blocks.dat count=8 # bvi first_blocks.dat -- Seek truth from facts.