On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 08:17, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > 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 > > If you only need to know if the grub2 *package* is installed then a > very quick check is to see if the documentation directory for it is > installed. Since all packages are required by Debian Policy to have a > documentation directory. > > if [ -d /usr/share/doc/grub-pc ]; then > echo The Grub2 package is installed. > fi > > > Or does that file exist in grub version 2 as well? > > If the machine was upgraded from version 1 to version 2 then the > menu.lst file will be left behind until manually removed. Because it > facilitates returning to version 1 if required. > > But having the package installed doesn't meant that the machine > actually has grub2 installed in the boot path. That seems a little > more difficult. > > I recently read this blog entry by Colin Watson that talked a little > bit about grub versions and the problems of mixing them. You might > find it interesting. > > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/2010/06/21#2010-06-21-grub2-boot-problems<http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/%7Ecjwatson/blosxom/2010/06/21#2010-06-21-grub2-boot-problems> > > Bob > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkwtUz0ACgkQ0pRcO8E2ULaw1ACeLd2LCMyHpT+j+ltxS1AKfgeK > 91YAn0JNcCXv7/XGZZBbKABXphhLrtLu > =bk8d > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > grub2.0, the following commands print version. grub-setup --version grub-setup (GRUB) 1.98-1 grub-install --version grub-install (GNU GRUB 1.98-1)
for grub1.0 grub --version should print the version. There is some version information in the MBR also file -s /dev/sda
