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Re: detecting presence of grub in MBR
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Pixel |
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Re: detecting presence of grub in MBR |
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09 Jan 2003 23:17:17 +0100 |
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Brett Russ <address@hidden> writes:
> Searching the archives I found a (old) message thread discussing how best to
> determine that GRUB (and not LILO) is installed on the system:
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> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2001-08/msg00062.html
for mandrake, i added a patch to have "GRUB" written at offset 6 (just
like lilo)
http://cvs.mandrakesoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/SPECS/grub/grub-0.91-nice-magic.patch
i don't remember if it is ugly or not :)