* Mike Klinke lsomike@futzin.com [27-Oct-2003 23:28]:
On Monday 27 October 2003 23:07, Charles Curley wrote:
Is there any way to detect which boot loader is the working one?
Would this method be of any use? Use "dd" to read the MBR, assuming that's where your boot loader resides. I know that the word "GRUB" will appear; for example:
#dd ibs=512 count=1 if=/dev/hda | grep -i grub Binary file (standard input) matches
Someone else will have to pipe up about LILO though...
LILO is also detectable:
[root@monitorus2 root]# dd ibs=512 count=1 if=/dev/hda | grep LILO 1+0 records in 1+0 records out Binary file (standard input) matches
If you will pipe "dd" output through "strings" before "grep", you will see "|lbaLILO", if LILO is installed or "GRUB", if GRUB is installed.