grub or lilo installed?

[Craig McLean]

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vl_grigorov at netissat.bg wrote:
> Omer Faruk Sen writes:
>> I have a system that boot lilo.conf and /boot/grub directory exist.. And
>> both of them configured well. Since I have no connection to that remote
>> system's video output there seems to be no way out to learn that.
>>
>>> hi,
>>> fedora uses grub as its boot manager. [at least in my system i've grub.
>>> and
>>> during installation fedora didnt asked me if i wanted to select grub or
>>> lilo
>>> as boot manager. it automatically installed grub.]
>>> but u can check the /boot directory if it contains a folder named 'grub'
>>> or
>>> not.
>>> and under that directory there must be a file named grub.conf [or in
>>> some
>>> distros menu.lst]
>>> regards,
>>> bye.
>>  
>>
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>> Omer Faruk Sen
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> 
> You can read master boot record and search on it.
> dd if=/dev/hda of=~/mbr.bak bs=512 count=1
> then: cat ~/mbr.bak
> the result is not very nice, but there can be read sometinh like "GRUB
> GeomHard DiskRead Error" for grub, I have't lilo, but think there must
> be something else in result of cat :)

You might be better off using 'strings ~/mbr.bak', rather than a pure
'cat'. My system (using grub) shows:

[root at songspire ~]# strings mbr.bak
ZRrI
D|f1
GRUB
Geom
Hard Disk
Read
 Error

Of course, we are assuming that you installed lilo/grub in the MBR, not
elsewhere.
Regards,
C.
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