is my server using grub or lilo?

arkepp · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 11:13 pm Post subject: is my server using grub or lilo?

Hi,

this may seem like a very odd question, but here is the deal:
I do the system admin stuff for a company in Europe while I study in the US. Right before leaving Europe, I installed Gentoo on one of the servers, but I ran into some problems with _either_ grub og lilo (can't remember), so I chose the other. Now the problem is that this machine should not be rebooted, and I need to find out which bootloader is being used to create mondo-rescue CDs.

Is there an easy way of telling? If I were to guess, I would say its running LILO: Machines running GRUB seem to have files like "boot-menu.b" and "boot-bmp.b" in /boot, but the machine in question has neither.

Corrections suggestions? Thanks in advance

-Arne

SuperSheep · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 11:17 pm Post subject:

Well, if its grub, then there should be a file called grub.conf knocking around somewhere in the /boot partition. If its lilo, them there should be a lilo.conf.
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arkepp

They're both were they are supposed to be... I first installed one, then the other without unmerging the previous first (had no idea whether the other would in fact work better than the first).

I've also looked at the timestamps, but they're too close to tell. I probably moved text from one to the other.

tomk · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 9:08 am Post subject:

Just having a look in my /boot directory I noticed that LILO made a map file last time it was run, it's mainly data but has some strings in it. This is what I get:

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