[Leaplist] 'Which' command for GRUB

Dan Cherry dan.s.cherry at gmail.com
Thu Feb 11 17:23:07 EST 2010


David Simmons wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> Just a quick question (because I fully believe there's always many
> ways to get to the same answer within Un*x / Linux).....does anyone
> know of a 'which' command for Grub?
> 
> Here's the situation.  I have four hard-drives in my main
> workstation....when a new version of OS came out - I'd get a new drive
> - install onto that new/empty drive...and use older drive(s) as
> storage/data.
> 
> I'd like to make changes to my Grub / Menu.lst file....but on my main
> / drive - there isn't a /boot/grub/menu.lst file!?  I can do the
> digging (but don't normally mount the other /boot partitions)....but
> it got me thinking - 'Is there a which command that will tell you
> where you're grub files are for your currently booted session?'
> 
> thx - dave
> 

You're probably running into the "grub 2" changes.  The config file is 
now called grub.cfg, and is a bit different.

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html
gives a full tutorial and a pretty good explanation

hth,
Dan


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