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

6       os-prober — Discover bootable partitions on the local system.
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SYNOPSIS

9       os-prober
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DESCRIPTION

12       The  os-prober  utility will scan all disks available on the system for
13       other operating systems.  For each discovered OS, it will output a line
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16       <partition>:<descriptive name>:<short name>:<kind of loader>
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18       For  example,  on  system  with  Windows XP installed on /dev/sda1, os-
19       prober will display:
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21       /dev/sda1:Windows NT/2000/XP:WinNT:chain
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23       Note that for Linux systems that are discovered, a call to  linux-boot-
24       prober  may be required in order to fully discover the necessary infor‐
25       mation to boot the system.
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SEE ALSO

28       linux-boot-prober(1)
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32os-prober                         20 Jan 2014                     os-prober(1)