Re: How to find active grub.conf



In article <1145849080.589891.306050@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
edgefree <songbd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:Hi all,
:
:I ran into a problem.
:
:On my disk, I installed several distributions, like FC, Debian, SuSE
:and etc. In order to remain them completement, I installed them all,
:including grub. I installed grub.conf on each partition. That means
:each time the installer refresh MBR grub stage1 data to point newer
:place.
:
:After several installtion, I hardly find which the active grub.conf is?
:It is boring thing to check them one by one.
:
:I guess there are method which can find active grub.conf easily. Would
:you mind share your experience with us?

When GRUB starts up, press the space bar immediately so that the menu is
displayed, then type a 'c' to get to the GRUB command prompt. At the
GRUB command prompt, type:

cat /boot/grub/grub.conf

and see what partitions are referenced in the config file. Remember
that GRUB numbers devices and partitions beginning with 0, so /dev/hda1
would be (hd0,0) in GRUB.

--
Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42"
.



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