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Operating Systems Linux Downloading Linux Post 99373 by Perderabo on Thursday 16th of February 2006 05:03:55 PM
Old 02-16-2006
I am not pleased that your instructor expects us to pick up his slack. But apparantly, someone has to. You should not attempt to install linux on a computer with data or software that you care about until you have more expertise. Most of us have an older computer laying around. If you have something like that available, then it would make sense. What this instructor has done is the approximate equivalent of handing a student a chainsaw and saying "Go try to cut down a tree. Hey, any questions? Don't bother me, try chainsaw.com." Following the instructor's, um, "instructions" could result in significant damage. Because of that, we will suspend rule 6. We can supply this student with any information we can to prevent the impending disasterous loss of information that may result from this do-it-yourself OS install.
 

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grub2-file

GRUB-FILE(1)						      General Commands Manual						      GRUB-FILE(1)

NAME

       grub-file -- Check if FILE is of specified type.

SYNOPSIS

       grub-file (--is-i386-xen-pae-domu | --is-x86_64-xen-domu |
		  --is-x86-xen-dom0 | --is-x86-multiboot |
		  --is-x86-multiboot2 | --is-arm-linux | --is-arm64-linux |
		  --is-ia64-linux | --is-mips-linux | --is-mipsel-linux |
		  --is-sparc64-linux | --is-powerpc-linux | --is-x86-linux |
		  --is-x86-linux32 | --is-x86-kfreebsd | --is-i386-kfreebsd |
		  --is-x86_64-kfreebsd | --is-x86-knetbsd |
		  --is-i386-knetbsd | --is-x86_64-knetbsd | --is-i386-efi |
		  --is-x86_64-efi | --is-ia64-efi | --is-arm64-efi |
		  --is-arm-efi | --is-hibernated-hiberfil | --is-x86_64-xnu |
		  --is-i386-xnu | --is-xnu-hibr | --is-x86-bios-bootsector)
		  FILE

DESCRIPTION

       grub-file is used to check if FILE is of a specified type.

OPTIONS

       --is-i386-xen-pae-domu
	      Check if FILE can be booted as i386 PAE Xen unprivileged guest kernel

       --is-x86_64-xen-domu
	      Check if FILE can be booted as x86_64 Xen unprivileged guest kernel

       --is-x86-xen-dom0
	      Check if FILE can be used as Xen x86 privileged guest kernel

       --is-x86-multiboot
	      Check if FILE can be used as x86 multiboot kernel

       --is-x86-multiboot2
	      Check if FILE can be used as x86 multiboot2 kernel

       --is-arm-linux
	      Check if FILE is ARM Linux

       --is-arm64-linux
	      Check if FILE is ARM64 Linux

       --is-ia64-linux
	      Check if FILE is IA64 Linux

       --is-mips-linux
	      Check if FILE is MIPS Linux

       --is-mipsel-linux
	      Check if FILE is MIPSEL Linux

       --is-sparc64-linux
	      Check if FILE is SPARC64 Linux

       --is-powerpc-linux
	      Check if FILE is POWERPC Linux

       --is-x86-linux
	      Check if FILE is x86 Linux

       --is-x86-linux32
	      Check if FILE is x86 Linux supporting 32-bit protocol

       --is-x86-kfreebsd
	      Check if FILE is x86 kFreeBSD

       --is-i386-kfreebsd
	      Check if FILE is i386 kFreeBSD

       --is-x86_64-kfreebsd
	      Check if FILE is x86_64 kFreeBSD

       --is-x86-knetbsd
	      Check if FILE is x86 kNetBSD

       --is-i386-knetbsd
	      Check if FILE is i386 kNetBSD

       --is-x86_64-knetbsd
	      Check if FILE is x86_64 kNetBSD

       --is-i386-efi
	      Check if FILE is i386 EFI file

       --is-x86_64-efi
	      Check if FILE is x86_64 EFI file

       --is-ia64-efi
	      Check if FILE is IA64 EFI file

       --is-arm64-efi
	      Check if FILE is ARM64 EFI file

       --is-arm-efi
	      Check if FILE is ARM EFI file

       --is-hibernated-hiberfil
	      Check if FILE is hiberfil.sys in hibernated state

       --is-x86_64-xnu
	      Check if FILE is x86_64 XNU (Mac OS X kernel)

       --is-i386-xnu
	      Check if FILE is i386 XNU (Mac OS X kernel)

       --is-xnu-hibr
	      Check if FILE is XNU (Mac OS X kernel) hibernated image

       --is-x86-bios-bootsector
	      Check if FILE is BIOS bootsector

SEE ALSO

       info grub

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