I've had an interruption in my email service and don't have individual email responses here to which to reply. Fortunately, I can read the archive and will try to respond here. Mike Klinke <lsomike futzin com> > Would this method be of any use? Use "dd" to read the MBR, assuming > that's where your boot loader resides. I know that the word "GRUB" > will appear; for example: > #dd ibs=512 count=1 if=/dev/hda | grep -i grub > Binary file (standard input) matches It will tell you if grub has been used, not necessarily if it is the current boot loader. I tried that on my test system and found both the keywords LILO and GRUB in its MBR (they are in two different places in the MBR). I have not yet tried re-running lilo on that system to see if lilo will clobber the GRUB keyword. But I know that grub does not clobber the LILO keyword. "Doncho N. Gunchev" <mr700 globalnet bg> > ... and... maybe, this can be solved for fedora by simply putting an > /etc/bootloader.conf with a single line bootloader="whatever" > ;)... just an idea ;) That would solve it for Fedora, but won't help non-fedora users. Also, what if the user switches to a different boot loader? The new boot loader would have to know to over-write bootloader.conf. Arrgggh. Nothing's perfect; I guess I'm going to have to muck with it. I'll probably have to warn the readers and suggest they hard code which one (if any) to use. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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