[SOLVED] What's the easiest way for a shell script to tell if grub version 1 is installed?

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:41:06 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote:
> Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> 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?
>> ...
> 
> Anand Sivaram <aspnair@gmail.com> wrote:
>> grub2.0
>> grub-setup --version
>> grub-setup (GRUB) 1.98-1
>> grub-install --version
>> grub-install (GNU GRUB 1.98-1)
>> grub1.0
>> grub --version should print the version.
> 
> From bootinfoscript
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/
> hexdump -v -n  2 -e '/1 "%x"' $drive
> eb48 == grub1
> eb4c == grub2 (1.96)
> eb63 == grub2 (1.97,1.98)

Thanks, Tom.  And thanks also to all who responded.  You are all
a wealth of information, and a big help.

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