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Siddhartha Basu wrote:
> Does anybody know any other way/command to accomplish this.

qpkg -I -v boot

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Siddhartha Basu wrote:
| Hi,
| I wanted to check which bootloader i am using without restarting the
| machine. So far i did this,
| head /dev/hda | strings | egrep ^(gr|li)
|
| Does anybody know any other way/command to accomplish this.

I would have thought that it was fairly obvious as the machine was
starting up. However, you could consult portage (`esearch grub\|lilo`)
or consult /etc/ or /boot/ for existance of lilo.conf or grub.conf ...
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On Tuesday 07 September 2004 09:21, Siddhartha Basu wrote:
> Hi,
> I wanted to check which bootloader i am using without restarting the
> machine. So far i did this,
> head /dev/hda | strings | egrep ^(gr|li)
>
> Does anybody know any other way/command to accomplish this.
>
>
> -siddhartha
>
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Am I missing something?

Look in /boot??????

Vram

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