Grub? Grub2?

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Now I wonder. When I run : file - < /dev/sda
> The output dose not have the string: GRUB version 0.94
> but in /boot/grub2 there is a grub.cfg and there is no grub.conf
> in /boot/grub nor is there a grub-install.
>
> So what am I to conclude about booting?

Apparently, `file` doesn't recognize GRUB2 yet, as it outputs no
information about what sort of bootloader is installed.  My system,
which I'm absolutely certain uses GRUB2 (it says so in the menu ;-),
says:

/dev/stdin: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x83, starthead 32,
startsector 2048, 1024000 sectors; partition 2: ID=0x7, active,
starthead 221, startsector 1026048, 81920000 sectors; partition 3:
ID=0x8e, starthead 254, startsector 82946048, 1167316992 sectors, code
offset 0x63, OEM-ID "      м", Bytes/sector 190, sectors/cluster 124,
reserved sectors 191, FATs 6, root entries 185, sectors 64514 (volumes
<=32 MB) , Media descriptor 0xf3, sectors/FAT 20644, heads 6, hidden
sectors 309755, sectors 2147991229 (volumes > 32 MB) , physical drive
0x7e, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x0)

So, no info probably means GRUB2.

-T.C.