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)