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bjschuma

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From: Ann Arbor

Registered: 2009-03-10

Posts: 15

Detect grub vs grub2

I'm working on some bash scripts to install and boot into custom Linux kernels across several distros (but mostly Arch and Fedora).  Is there a standard way of checking if a machine is configured with grub legacy instead of grub2?  I was thinking of checking the output of `which grub-mkconfig` but I'm curious if there is a better solution.

Thanks!

bslackr

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Registered: 2012-01-27

Posts: 131

Re: Detect grub vs grub2

You could check output of grub-install -v.

bjschuma

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From: Ann Arbor

Registered: 2009-03-10

Posts: 15

Re: Detect grub vs grub2

That looks like it'll work, thank you!

If anybody else needs this, grub-legacy gives:

$ grub-install -v
grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97)

And grub2 gives:

$ grub-install -v
grub-install (GRUB) 2.00