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.

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On Jo, 01 iul 10, 14:30:12, 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.

It doesn't exist in grub2, but there is no guarantee it was removed on
upgrade. If you question relates only to Debian systems why not ask
dpkg?

Regards,
Andrei
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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

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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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