{"id":476,"date":"2012-02-20T13:20:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T13:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fbcs.co.uk\/wp\/?p=476"},"modified":"2012-02-20T13:20:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T13:20:26","slug":"current-grub-boot-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/current-grub-boot-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Grub boot status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When working on a remote Linux server, with no (easy) way to fix things if a reboot goes wrong, I was looking for ways to investigate the current Grub configuration.&nbsp; One Anthony of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hantslug.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">HantsLUG<\/a> suggested using <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/bootinfoscript\/\" target=\"_blank\">boot_info_script<\/a>, which turns out to be a very useful tool for this.<\/p>\n<p>It creates output that starts like this:<\/p>\n<pre>                  Boot Info Script 0.60    from 17 May 2011\n\n============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================\n\n =&gt; Grub2 (v1.97-1.98) is installed in the MBR of \/dev\/sda and looks at sector\n    1 of the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and\n    looks for (md0)\/grub on this drive.\n =&gt; Grub2 (v1.97-1.98) is installed in the MBR of \/dev\/sdb and looks at sector\n    1 of the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and\n    looks for (md0)\/grub on this drive.\n<\/pre>\n<p>and then continues with more details about the Grub settings.<\/p>\n<p>Just what I needed to reassure me that the server will (probably) boot if I restart it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When working on a remote Linux server, with no (easy) way to fix things if a reboot goes wrong, I was looking for ways to investigate the current Grub configuration.&nbsp; One Anthony of HantsLUG suggested using boot_info_script, which turns out to be a very useful tool for this. It creates output that starts like this: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}