Boot Loader Detection: GRUB or LILO?

[Michael Kearey]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 04:07:15PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> 
>>Is there any way to detect which boot loader is the working one?
>>Simply detecting whether a grub or lilo package is installed may not
>>be sufficient, especially in the case where both are installed. I
>>suppose I could look to see which is more recent, grub.conf or
>>lilo.conf, but I can think of several scenarios unde which this would
>>fail.
>>
>>It's time to update my bare metal recovery scripts
>>(http://www.charlescurley.com/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html)
>>to handle grub, and I'd like to detect the current boot loader if
>>possible.
> 
> The solutions suggested seem too complicated. Just reboot. Unless things
> have changed radically the lilo boot screen looks completely different
> that the grub boot screen.

The original post very obviously needs a way to detect Grub and Lilo 
programmatically.

The solutions suggested are appropriate. Maybe you need to read the 
original post carefully.

Cheers,
Michael