Re: [Libguestfs] libguestfs question - multiple partitions in the guest

-----Original Message----- From: Richard W.M. Jones [mailto:rjones@redhat.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 5:09 PM To: Shawn Kennedy Cc: libguestfs(a)redhat.com; 'Smudde, Mark Alan (Mark)'; 'Tockstein, James E (Jim)' Subject: Re: [Libguestfs] libguestfs question - multiple partitions in the guest On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 05:02:28PM -0500, Shawn Kennedy wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Richard W.M. Jones [mailto:rjones@redhat.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 4:22 PM > > To: Shawn Kennedy > > Cc: libguestfs(a)redhat.com; 'Smudde, Mark Alan (Mark)'; 'Tockstein, James E (Jim)' > > Subject: Re: [Libguestfs] libguestfs question - multiple partitions in the guest > > > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 03:31:19PM -0500, Shawn Kennedy wrote: > > > I wonder - maybe an new tool (virt-grub) to dump out the grub > > > content of the guest image (if linux)!! :-) :-) :-) > > > > It's actually pretty simple to script this. See attached > > (requires a grub1 guest). > > Luckily, we still are grub1 ..... > > # grub --version > grub (GNU GRUB 0.97) > > So I ran it and it tells me I have 2 OSs ... > > root: /dev/VG1/LV0001.root > root: /dev/VG1/LV0002.root > > I thought it might dump the running grub, [...] I thought it would do too. One problem with Augeas is that it relies on the exact location of the configuration file. You can try changing: display ("/files/etc/grub.conf") to: display ("/files") and see if the grub config shows up anywhere in the (likely to be huge) output.