wok diff os-prober/description.txt @ rev 24920

updated mp (5.2.10 -> 5.58)
author Hans-G?nter Theisgen
date Sun Apr 10 07:48:27 2022 +0100 (2022-04-10)
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     1.1 --- a/os-prober/description.txt	Wed Mar 24 16:16:25 2021 +0100
     1.2 +++ b/os-prober/description.txt	Sun Apr 10 07:48:27 2022 +0100
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     1.4 -os-prober is a spinoff of debian-installer.
     1.5 -One of the installer's features is that it can probe disks on the system for other operating systems,
     1.6 -and add them to the boot loader, so that installing Debian doesn't make your other installed OS hard to boot.
     1.7 +Os-prober is a spinoff of debian-installer.
     1.8 +One of the installer's features is that it can probe disks
     1.9 +on the system for other operating systems, and add them to
    1.10 +the boot loader, so that installing Debian doesn't make
    1.11 +your other installed OS hard to boot.
    1.12 +
    1.13 +To do this it needs to both be able to find out what version
    1.14 +of what OS lives in a given partition (linux, windows, dos,
    1.15 +macos, the hurd, solaris, qnx, minix).
    1.16 +It also needs to work out how to boot existing installed
    1.17 +linux systems, and has to be able to detect what distribution
    1.18 +is installed, to add a better menu entry to grub than just "linux".