Bowie Bailey wrote on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:19:34 -0400: > I'm looking for a way to determine whether grub is installed on a drive > WITHOUT having to actually attempt to boot from it. If I redo the > installation, then I can be sure it's installed, but if it's already > there, I'd rather leave it alone. There's no point in messing with it > if it's already installed. You could dd the MBR to a file and then examine both. You could diff them, I think they should be identical, should they? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com