os-prober man page on Oracle

os-prober man page on Oracle

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os-prober(1)							  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)

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