How to know the partition where grub is installed
I am Dual Booting Maverick with Natty. I want to know which partition has Grub installed.
I want to make sure that grub is installed in the maverick partition not in natty, so that when I remove the natty partition, I don't have booting problem in the absence of grub.
On maverick there is no menu.list
file in /boot/grub
but natty has one.
Here is the output of fdisk -l
gaurav@gaurav-desktop:~/Desktop$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9cdb9cdb
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 7295 58592773+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 7295 25475 146033664 83 Linux
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 25476 32194 53970367+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 32195 35483 26414081 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 32195 32444 1999872 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 32444 35483 24413184 83 Linux
gaurav@gaurav-desktop:~/Desktop$
One way is to run Boot Info Script. It will return the file RESULTS.txt which will include a line similar to:
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in partition #7 for /boot/grub.