[Leaplist] 'Which' command for GRUB

David Simmons dave at dgnal.net
Thu Feb 11 17:40:07 EST 2010


Dan - thanks for the answer!  What's funny is that I've already edited
this file in the past (see some old custom comment entries I made).
Man....sleep in between doing things twice and you have to start all
over!

Thanks again - dave

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Dan Cherry <dan.s.cherry at gmail.com> wrote:
> David Simmons wrote:
>> 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?'
>
> 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

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