Re: How to find active grub.conf


edgefree wrote:
Thank firstly.

Actually, current my situation is I will reboot my machine remotely. So
I have no chance to change grub.conf during grub booting time. So, I
have to change the correct boot kernel before reboot. Then, I need to
know where the right grub.conf is.

I guess grub stage1 in MBR should know where it is. Who know how to
pick-up the information in grub-stage1? Or whether grub shell provides
corresponding command or API for it?

Thanks you all for attention.

Gavin.

Hello Gavin;

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Do you have no 'menu.lst' file in /boot/grub ?
If you do;
$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst

Read the commented areas of the file...follow up using earlier advice
from another poster;

If you have no 'menu.lst' file anywhere - use google to find out what
it contains and does.

[ Previously written ]
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
Add a comment in the displayed boot configurations line of your different
grub.conf files, referring to the distribution it's from.

[ Previously written ]
Robert Nichols wrote:
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.

Nobody will help you, unless you answer/reply with some context!

.

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