linux-boot-prober(1) General Commands Manual linux-boot-prober(1)

NAME
       linux-boot-prober  —  Determine  boot  characteristics  of  a specified
       device.

SYNOPSIS
       linux-boot-prober 

DESCRIPTION
       The linux-boot-prober utility will try to work  out  how  to  boot  the
       linux  root partition specified by .  If successful, it will
       outoput one or more lines of the form:

       :::::

       For  example,  for  a  system  with  a  kernel  at /boot/vmlinuz and an
       initramfs at /boot/initrd.gz, and with /  on  /dev/sda2  and  /boot  on
       /dev/sda1, 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 linux-boot-prober.  If a par‐
       tition is mounted on /, /target, or /target/boot, it will be skipped.

SEE ALSO
       os-prober(1)



linux-boot-prober                 20 Jan 2014             linux-boot-prober(1)