wok-current diff os-prober/description.txt @ rev 25525
created recipe for lua5.1-lpeg 1.0.2
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Fri Feb 24 17:54:40 2023 +0100 (18 months ago) |
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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 Fri Feb 24 17:54:40 2023 +0100 1.3 @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ 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".