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os-prober(1)                General Commands Manual               os-prober(1)

NAME
       os-prober -- Discover bootable partitions on the local system.
SYNOPSIS
       os-prober
DESCRIPTION
       The  os-prober  utility will scan all disks available on the system for
       other operating systems.  For each discovered OS, it will output a line
       of the form:
       <partition>:<descriptive name>:<short name>:<kind of loader>
       For  example,  on  system  with  Windows XP installed on /dev/sda1, os-
       prober will display:
       /dev/sda1:Windows NT/2000/XP:WinNT:chain
       Note that for Linux systems that are discovered, a call to  linux-boot-
       prober  may be required in order to fully discover the necessary infor-
       mation to boot the system.
SEE ALSO
       linux-boot-prober(1)

os-prober                         20 Jan 2014                     os-prober(1)