centos man page for os-prober

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
       information to boot the system.

SEE ALSO
       linux-boot-prober(1)

os-prober							    20 Jan 2014 						      os-prober(1)