Re: grub / grub2 conflicts

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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 09:23:40PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 07:38:54PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 05:37:39PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >> We allow you to inspect the guest to find the OS version, and even
> >> versions of individual packages installed in it.
> >
> > The package version of grub does nothing to tell you which version of
> > grub is actually installed in the boot sector.
> 
> That doesn't matter: When libguestfs runs its installation of grub,
> the boot sector will be overwritten.  What matters is the versions of
> stage1/1.5/2 files in the guest, which is adequately described by
> identifying the RPM.

And now you're assuming that sector list will always be in the same 
place. Which also isn't guaranteed.

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