wok annotate os-prober/description.txt @ rev 25582
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author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Sat May 27 12:55:43 2023 +0000 (13 months ago) |
parents | 23f582bc5eb0 |
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Hans-G?nter@24169 | 1 Os-prober is a spinoff of debian-installer. |
Hans-G?nter@24169 | 2 One of the installer's features is that it can probe disks |
Hans-G?nter@24169 | 3 on the system for other operating systems, and add them to |
Hans-G?nter@24169 | 4 the boot loader, so that installing Debian doesn't make |
Hans-G?nter@24169 | 5 your other installed OS hard to boot. |
Hans-G?nter@24169 | 6 |
Hans-G?nter@24169 | 7 To do this it needs to both be able to find out what version |
Hans-G?nter@24169 | 8 of what OS lives in a given partition (linux, windows, dos, |
Hans-G?nter@24169 | 9 macos, the hurd, solaris, qnx, minix). |
Hans-G?nter@24169 | 10 It also needs to work out how to boot existing installed |
Hans-G?nter@24169 | 11 linux systems, and has to be able to detect what distribution |
Hans-G?nter@24169 | 12 is installed, to add a better menu entry to grub than just "linux". |