On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Aaron Konstam akonstam@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 " ΠΌ", 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.