linux-boot-prober(1) General Commands Manual linux-boot-prober(1) NAME linux-boot-prober — Determine boot characteristics of a specified device. SYNOPSIS linux-boot-prober <partition> DESCRIPTION The linux-boot-prober utility will try to work out how to boot the linux root partition specified by <parti‐ tion>. If successful, it will outoput one or more lines of the form: <root partition>:<boot partition>:<label>:<kernel path>:<initrd path>:<kernel parameters> For example, for a system with a kernel at /boot/vmlinuz and an initramfs at /boot/initrd.gz, and with / on /dev/sda2 and /boot on /dev/sda1, the command "linux-boot-prober /dev/sda1" will display: /dev/sda2:/dev/sda1:Linux:/vmlinuz:/initrd.gz:root=/dev/sda1 Some partitions will not be displayed by linux-boot-prober. If a partition is mounted on /, /target, or /tar‐ get/boot, it will be skipped. SEE ALSO os-prober(1) linux-boot-prober 20 Jan 2014 linux-boot-prober(1)