Some of the current images of Redhat (specifically RHEL) used by ev1 have both bootloaders installed on the system. This makes it somewhat annoying when you are doing kernel upgrades as you have to modify both loader config or take a gamble.

Therefore, if you wish to find out which bootloader is used on the system, you will need to su to root.

As root, you need to run either of these commands:
dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 2>&1 | grep GRUB
or
dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 2>&1 | grep LILO

If the bootloader is found then it will say: Binary file (standard input) matches and this indicates this is the bootloader your system will use on startup.

While I don't recommend removing the other, you shouldn't need to change the config of it anymore.

Also below mentioned command will also give the same result:



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You can also use the command "grubby --bootloader-probe"

Even easier way if you are at ev1

If you have RHEL3 it is lilo
If you have RHEL4 it is grub

I have not seen a stock box yet that is different

When I run this command I am receiving below mentinoed output, what could be wrong?



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Do you have the /boot partition mounted? What are the contents of this directory?

No, I have not /boot as partition it is a part of / root only. and it contains normal content as all boot directory have.

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