Hi,

Richard Owlett wrote:

The existing install is so old it has Grub 1.??? rather than 2.??? .

DdB wrote:

Oh, grub-pc (a.k.a. grub1)?

grub-pc is GRUB2 for Legacy PC-BIOS on x86.

I gotta confess: when i did join linux, there was grub1.98

Version 1.98, too, is already GRUB2.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-03/msg00017.html

According to
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/History.html
the last release of ye olde GRUB was 0.97 in 2005.

Old GRUB had its configuration in a file named menu.lst:
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy/Configuration.html
GRUB2 has the root of its configuration empire in grub.cfg:
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/Configuration.html#Configuration


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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