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1 Os-prober is a spinoff of debian-installer.
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2 One of the installer's features is that it can probe disks
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3 on the system for other operating systems, and add them to
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4 the boot loader, so that installing Debian doesn't make
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5 your other installed OS hard to boot.
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7 To do this it needs to both be able to find out what version
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8 of what OS lives in a given partition (linux, windows, dos,
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9 macos, the hurd, solaris, qnx, minix).
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10 It also needs to work out how to boot existing installed
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11 linux systems, and has to be able to detect what distribution
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12 is installed, to add a better menu entry to grub than just "linux".
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