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Using a virtualized instance on linode.com, I don’t see where my bootloader is.
In the usual place where I would find grub, i.e. in /boot/grub/menu.lst, I don’t see any files or directories below the /boot path. It’s completely empty.
How do I find out where my bootloader is for my server instance on linode.com?
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The boot loader is the code executed immediately after booting the system; part of it resides in the MBR (sector 1, cylinder 1 of the boot disk), but that is only 512 bytes in size so it usually chainloads a bigger bootloader elsewhere.
If you don’t have a /boot/grub (and the bootloader stages required to boot with grub), then you’re not using grub.
See if /etc/lilo.conf exists, instead.
man lilo
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