Grub? Grub2?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 10:51 -0800, Scott Doty wrote: 
> On 02/23/2012 10:26 AM, Jeffrey Ross wrote:
> > This is a system that was upgraded from F15 to F16 via Yum, how can I do:
> >
> > 1) confirm which version of grub was used to boot the system
> 
> # file - < /dev/sda
> 
> The dash is important -- tells file(1) to read from stdin.  Example:
> 
> _[/root]_(root at atom)_
> # file - < /dev/sda
> /dev/stdin: x86 boot sector; GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 
> 0x3, boot drive 0x80, 1st sector stage2 0x138800, GRUB version 0.94; 
> partition 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 32, startsector 2048, 1572864 
> sectors; partition 2: ID=0x82, starthead 8, startsector 1574912, 1048576 
> sectors; partition 3: ID=0x83, starthead 77, startsector 2623488, 
> 56002560 sectors, code offset 0x48
> 
> > 2) re-install the boot record (MBR?) for the version of grub I'm running
> > onto a replacement drive?
> >
> >
> 
> Take a look at grub2-install or grub-install, depending on what you have 
> installed.
> 
>   -Scott
> 

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? 
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