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+.TH linux-boot-prober 1 "20 Jan 2014" "linux-boot-prober"
+.SH "NAME"
+linux-boot-prober \(em Determine boot characteristics of a specified device.
+.SH "SYNOPSIS"
+.B linux-boot-prober
+.I <partition>
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.PP
+The \fBlinux-boot-prober\fR utility will try to work out how to boot the
+linux root partition specified by \fI<partition>\fR.  If successful, it
+will outoput one or more lines of the form:
+
+<root partition>:<boot partition>:<label>:<kernel path>:<initrd path>:<kernel parameters>
+
+For example, for a system with a kernel at \fI/boot/vmlinuz\fR and an
+initramfs at \fI/boot/initrd.gz\fR, and with \fI/\fR on \fI/dev/sda2\fR and
+\fI/boot\fR on \fI/dev/sda1\fR, the command "linux-boot-prober /dev/sda1" will
+display:
+
+/dev/sda2:/dev/sda1:Linux:/vmlinuz:/initrd.gz:root=/dev/sda1
+
+Some partitions will not be displayed by \fBlinux-boot-prober\fI.  If a
+partition is mounted on \fI/\fR, \fI/target\fR, or \fI/target/boot\fR, it will
+be skipped.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.PP
+\fBos-prober\fR(1)
diff -urpN os-prober-1.58/os-prober.1.man os-prober-1.58/os-prober.1
--- os-prober-1.58/os-prober.1.man	2014-01-20 15:52:04.503934030 -0500
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+.TH os-prober 1 "20 Jan 2014" "os-prober"
+.SH "NAME"
+os-prober \(em Discover bootable partitions on the local system.
+.SH "SYNOPSIS"
+.B os-prober
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.PP
+The \fBos-prober\fR 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 \fI/dev/sda1\fR,
+\fBos-prober\fR will display:
+
+/dev/sda1:Windows NT/2000/XP:WinNT:chain
+
+Note that for Linux systems that are discovered, a call to
+\fBlinux-boot-prober\fI may be required in order to fully discover the
+necessary information to boot the system.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.PP
+\fBlinux-boot-prober\fR(1)