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 dis‐ covered 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 information to boot the system. SEE ALSO linux-boot-prober(1) os-prober 20 Jan 2014 os-prober(1)