On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:41:06 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: > Stephen Powell <zlinux...@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 <aspn...@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. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1034882814.120496.1278940002127.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com