Where's my grub2?

[Tom H]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 1:57 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Sort of like 'Where's Waldo'...
>
> Multiboot 9.10 & 10.04. Both have grub-pc (grub2) installed. However the
> actual grub2 being used is on the 9.10. So here's my question:
>
> Is there an easy command to determine which grub2 is being used?
> For example if I'm in 10.04 and I send time modifying /etc/default/grub
> nothing much will happen even if I use 'sudo update-grub'. Reason being
> is that the system is using the 9.10 grub2.
>
> Seems to be way too many grub- options to choose from anymore:
> $ grub-
> grub-bin2h            grub-mkfont           grub-probe
> grub-editenv          grub-mkimage          grub-reboot
> grub-install          grub-mkisofs          grub-script-check
> grub-mkconfig         grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2  grub-set-default
> grub-mkdevicemap      grub-mkrelpath        grub-setup
> grub-mkelfimage       grub-mkrescue

I would say roughly double the number of grub1 grub- commands! Progress?

Unless you want to use hexdump and figure out from its output at what
partition core.img is pointing, the simplest would be to use
bootinfoscript's output or find the section of code in bootinfoscript
where this is done.