On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:40:52 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:37:33 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Is there a way to find out what version of grub is installed in the MBR >> of a drive? > > "grub-install -v" will tell the installed version. > > Anyway... IIRC, the version is printed at the top of the boot menu.
The question aroused my curiosity, so I tried looking at the boot sector itself: $ sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=mbr_backup.bin bs=512 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.00038036 s, 1.3 MB/s $ file mbr_backup.bin mbr_backup.bin: x86 boot sector; GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 0x3, stage2 address 0x2000, stage2 segment 0x200, GRUB version 0.94; partition 1: ID=0x27, starthead 1, startsector 63, 25173792 sectors; partition 2: ID=0x7, starthead 254, startsector 25173855, 208845 sectors; partition 3: ID=0x7, active, starthead 254, startsector 25382700, 44194815 sectors; partition 4: ID=0x5, starthead 254, startsector 69577576, 243000472 sectors, code offset 0x48, 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) $ One (slightly) interesting thing is that this reports version 0.94 whereas the version of GRUB on the partition from where it was installed claims to be 0.97. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jb5lda$kmt$1...@dough.gmane.org
