(I think I accidentally replied to poster instead of list on this one last
night, so reposting)

I am 90% certain it's grub2. The machine was running some variant of Lenny
or Squeeze Debian before I made an ill-advised upgrade, I'm pretty sure
Debian upgraded from grub1 to grub2 back in the days of sarge or etch. That
was it's own fresh hell, I recall. ;)

>From here I can't get to my linux boot environment to check via dpkg. I
think the environment is keyed toward a 3.x kernel thus my 4 other 2.6
variants are also unbootable. Also spent this evening trying out tomsrtbt
floppy. Grub displays (fd0) as an item and disk drive lights when I try to
ls (fd0), but then it says "Device fd0: Filesystem cannot be accessed //
error: no such disk". Same error as empty drive. Floppy mounts fine in
other computers and passes "badblocks -w" test, I suspect it could be
tomsrtbt's 1.8MB hack. This ancient server may not support the additional
capacity. *shrugs*

When I run "help" at grub command line I don't see any "version" command or
similar to clarify 1.98 vs 1.99 or such. If there is a way to discern from
grub> prompt, or if that's relevant then I'm all ears. :)

- - Jesse


On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Andrey Borzenkov <[email protected]>
 wrote:

> Which grub version is installed?
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