os-prober
utility to detect other OSes on a set of drives
Binary packages in stable
| Architecture | Version | Section | Installed size |
|---|---|---|---|
| amd64 | 1.83 | utils | 98 kB |
| arm64 | 1.83 | utils | 135 kB |
| armel | 1.83 | utils | 66 kB |
| armhf | 1.83 | utils | 66 kB |
| i386 | 1.83 | utils | 97 kB |
| ppc64el | 1.83 | utils | 127 kB |
| riscv64 | 1.83 | utils | 67 kB |
| s390x | 1.83 | utils | 67 kB |
Description
utility to detect other OSes on a set of drives
Dependencies amd64
- Depends
- libc6 (>= 2.34), grub-common, mount
Source package
- Name
- os-prober
- Version
- 1.83
- Maintainer
- Debian Install System Team
- Repository
- https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/os-prober
Bugs (114 open)
Each bug opens in the Debian bug tracking system, which holds its message log and current state.
- #1103935 important os-prober: Hurd detection produces unusable grub.cfg fragment on bugs.debian.org pending by Martin-Éric Racine reported updated
- #995063 important os-prober fails to detect partition when the device name is a substring of another device on bugs.debian.org pending by Mike reported updated patch
- #978754 important grub-mount on /var/lib/os-prober/mount type fuse.grub-mount on bugs.debian.org pending by Mateusz reported updated d-ipatchupstream
- #920498 important os-prober generates jessy entry with bad UUID on bugs.debian.org pending by Joachim Schmidt reported updated
- #867804 important os-prober fails to parse lilo.conf correctly on bugs.debian.org pending by Hazel Russman reported updated d-i
- #795100 important os-prober: It hangs on kernel package upgrade, making impossible to generate a correct ramdisk on bugs.debian.org pending by mansiweb reported updated
- #780545 important os-prober looping with formated partitions without OS on bugs.debian.org pending by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho reported updated
- #777702 important os-prober seems to hang, but is actually reading entire partition when a partition is not mounted on bugs.debian.org pending by Clinton Mead reported updated d-i
- #732696 important os-prober: Fails to detect new package-management Haiku builds on bugs.debian.org pending by David Given reported updated patch
- #695505 important os-prober: does not work on non-Linux kernels on bugs.debian.org pending by Michael Tsang reported updated
- #681691 important os-prober and linux-boot-prober fail to mount alternate partition on bugs.debian.org pending by Eric L. reported updated
- #680320 important os-prober: Hangs on bugs.debian.org pending by Nigel Horne reported updated
- #646415 important grub-ieee1275: system hang on G4 cube when running /usr/bin/os-prober (triggered during update-grub) on bugs.debian.org pending by Daniel Kahn Gillmor reported updated
- #606904 important grub-common: Mandriva boot record is imported incorrectly from its menu.lst on bugs.debian.org pending by Dmitry Mikhirev reported updated
- #604611 important os-prober: Properly Detect International MacOS on PowerPC on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated help
- #593806 important os-prober: os-prober creates an unbootable entry on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #582231 important os-prober - Does not cleanup /var/lib/os-prober on bugs.debian.org pending by Bastian Blank reported updated
- #580736 important grub is not able to configure Fedora in a dual boot setup on bugs.debian.org pending by Praveen A reported updated
- #565953 important os-prober: when using a shared /boot, should somehow exclude entries with a different root= from the root directory currently being examined on bugs.debian.org pending by Julien Bellion reported updated
- #1085067 normal os-prober generates incorrect path on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #1052545 normal os-prober in initramfs gets repeatedly disabled on bugs.debian.org pending by Eduard Bloch reported updated
- #1034485 normal os-prober expects to run in a new private mount namespace, but new namespace is not private on bugs.debian.org pending by Olivier Gayot reported updated
- #1013203 normal os-prober: Dual boot Windows 10 grub-probe error unknown filesystem on bugs.debian.org pending by Steven Zalek reported updated
- #1008204 normal os-prober: No need in probing ploop devices on bugs.debian.org pending by Denis Silakov reported updated
- #1002641 normal os-prober: does nothing without "systemd-journald" running (syslog is: /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -iNONE) on bugs.debian.org pending by tom reported updated
- #983107 normal os-prober: generic subvolume support for btrfs on bugs.debian.org pending by Osamu Aoki reported updated
- #980782 normal os-prober: linux-boot-prober returning "root=/dev/dm-X" line instead of expected "root=UUID=[UUID128] on bugs.debian.org pending by Mirko Vogt reported updated
- #969886 normal os-prober: Skip partitions of RADOS block devices mapped by the Linux driver on bugs.debian.org pending by Oleander Reis reported updated patch
- #959668 normal os-prober: translated auto-added items in other installs are not recognized as such on bugs.debian.org pending by Benno Schulenberg reported updated l10npatch
- #958218 normal update-grub fails to process more than one argument to initrd on bugs.debian.org pending by Tony Hunter reported updated
- #949311 normal os-prober hangs Mageia 7 x86_64 kernel installation on bugs.debian.org pending by Rolf Pedersen reported updated
- #932974 normal os-prober should disable debug message in release on bugs.debian.org pending by Michael Chang reported updated
- #924631 normal os-probe failed to detect second debian on bugs.debian.org pending by 张宁 reported updated
- #919813 normal os-prober fails to find any os's at all. on bugs.debian.org pending by Hendrik Boom reported updated
- #913733 normal os-prober: parsing for os-release is not implemented and has a bug for lsb-release on bugs.debian.org pending by Andrew Gavrilin reported updated patch
- #912896 normal please cleanup on bugs.debian.org pending by Harald Dunkel reported updated
- #907343 normal os-prober creates fedora 28 default menu entry with rescuedisc on bugs.debian.org pending by J. Scheurich reported updated
- #888066 normal grub2: grub.cfg too big, system unable to boot on bugs.debian.org pending by Juan reported updated
- #884681 normal os-prober invoked during kernel upgrade disrupts KVM guest on bugs.debian.org pending by Jakub Juraszek reported updated
- #864246 normal os-prober: Add bcache support. on bugs.debian.org pending by Mike Mestnik reported updated patch
- #864181 normal os-prober: dmraid detection not functional. on bugs.debian.org pending by Mike Mestnik reported updated
- #857130 normal os-prober: add support for veracrypt system encryption on UEFI on bugs.debian.org pending by Gergely Risko reported updated patch
- #849278 normal zapps USB somehow on bugs.debian.org pending by 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson reported updated
- #815155 normal Detects impossible situation as bootable option on bugs.debian.org pending by Wouter Verhelst reported updated
- #814490 normal os-prober: 50lilo fails to parse append= in lilo.conf, elading to corrupted grub.cfg on bugs.debian.org pending by Marc Lehmann reported updated
- #808514 normal os-prober: Does no longer recognize Windows 7 on bugs.debian.org pending by Andreas Tscharner reported updated
- #801769 normal os-prober does not list connected LUKS encrypted partitions on bugs.debian.org pending by Arjen Balfoort reported updated patch
- #764429 normal os-prober: doen't clean up correctly on purge on bugs.debian.org pending by Christoph Anton Mitterer reported updated
- #759388 normal Os-prober doesn't notice initrd files other than debian's one on bugs.debian.org pending by Mauro Sacchetto reported updated
- #754170 normal fails to exclude RAID members on bugs.debian.org pending by Matus UHLAR - fantomas reported updated
- #748211 normal os-prober: Dangerous failure during kernel upgrade (probed NFS?) on bugs.debian.org pending by Conrad J.C. Hughes \(for Debian package stuff\) reported updated
- #742224 normal os-prober: NetBSD detection on bugs.debian.org pending by Nigel Horne reported updated
- #730503 normal os-prober can't configure gnu/kfreebsd from gnu/linux on bugs.debian.org pending by Praveen A reported updated
- #701228 normal os-prober returns "Device or resource busy" on bugs.debian.org pending by Harald Dunkel reported updated
- #699840 normal linux-boot-prober doesn't return correct boot partition if both / and /boot partitions are already mounted on bugs.debian.org pending by Hedayat Vatankhah reported updated patch
- #699839 normal linux-boot-prober doesn't return original boot partition name in fstab on bugs.debian.org pending by Hedayat Vatankhah reported updated patch
- #699189 normal os-prober does not detect multi btrfs pools/volumes on bugs.debian.org pending by Hedayat Vatankhah reported updated patch
- #694668 normal A patch improve the performance of os-prober for systems with many partitions on bugs.debian.org pending by Hedayat Vatankhah reported updated patch
- #692887 normal installation-reports: Installation report on Dell Inspiron n5110 on bugs.debian.org pending by Bojana Borkovic reported updated
- #688336 normal update-grub finds only one system on btrfs volume on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated patch
- #686314 normal Requires the fuse module to be loaded in order to detect Windows 7 on bugs.debian.org pending by Ruben Leote Mendes reported updated
- #681221 normal os-prober: stopped finding Windows XP parition on bugs.debian.org pending by Martin-Éric Racine reported updated
- #680198 normal grub-common: Hangs in 30_os-prober on bugs.debian.org pending by Nigel Horne reported updated
- #671881 normal Don't abort on grub-probe failures on bugs.debian.org pending against src:os-prober by dann frazier reported updated patch
- #666764 normal [os-prober] 20microsoft is stuck on Vista (newer Windows versions sometimes detected as Vista, encoding problem) on bugs.debian.org pending by Filipus Klutiero reported updated
- #665475 normal os-prober: follows symlinks in /dev/mapper/ on bugs.debian.org pending by Alexis Rimbaud reported updated
- #659208 normal os-prober changes: Linux and *BSD detection was separated on bugs.debian.org pending by Gavrilin Andrey reported updated patch
- #659089 normal os-prober changes: Linux and *BSD detection on bugs.debian.org pending by Gavrilin Andrey reported updated patch
- #654455 normal Android is not detected by os-prober on bugs.debian.org pending by Boot Repair reported updated
- #650859 normal typical weekend after black friday install, 2011 edition on bugs.debian.org pending by Joey Hess reported updated d-i
- #649217 normal grub-common: grub-mkconfig, an os-prober part generates multiple menuentry for same os on bugs.debian.org pending by Mark Poks reported updated
- #648251 normal A patch to add support for distributions installed on MD Raid devices on bugs.debian.org pending by Hedayat Vatankhah reported updated
- #640394 normal os-prober fails to recognize root partition on bugs.debian.org pending by Harald Dunkel reported updated
- #633349 normal grub-common: 30_os-prober is generating a syntactically invalid entry for a recently deleted kernel on bugs.debian.org pending by Joe Pfeiffer reported updated
- #630503 normal Windows XP installation not detected on bugs.debian.org pending by yasasvi reported updated
- #625517 normal os-prober: ubuntu partition found on Debian install, but then lost upon kenel update on bugs.debian.org pending by Paul Johnson reported updated d-i
- #618500 normal os-prober: Puppy Linux not detected on bugs.debian.org pending by Erik Grootjans reported updated
- #616733 normal os-prober: Does not detect MS-DOS reliably on bugs.debian.org pending by Matti Kurkela reported updated
- #614516 normal grub2 in Debian Squeeze failed to probe the Mandriva 2010.2 on bugs.debian.org pending by wolf london reported updated
- #614143 normal os-prober: generated linux entries don't use UUIDs for root= parameter on bugs.debian.org pending by Matthias Berndt reported updated bookwormbullseyebusterforkyjessiepatchsidstretchtrixie
- #612407 normal wrong root partition for Lenny written by Squeeze installer on bugs.debian.org pending by Thomas Lehmann reported updated
- #608069 normal not detected existing Lubuntu installation on bugs.debian.org pending by Herbert Kaminski reported updated
- #605908 normal some Windows Recovery paritions are misdetected as Windows 7 on bugs.debian.org pending by Joey Hess reported updated
- #604078 normal os-prober: grub boot menu not titled correctly following update-grub on bugs.debian.org pending by Bill Julian reported updated
- #586370 normal os-prober: Misdetected Fedora 13 install in /boot/grub/grub.cfg on bugs.debian.org pending by Sedat Dilek reported updated
- #555394 normal os-prober: fails both sides of a Linux/kFreeBSD dual-boot on bugs.debian.org pending by Justin B Rye reported updated
- #554151 normal os-prober does not detect initramfs for dracut/F12 on bugs.debian.org pending by Michael Biebl reported updated
- #550276 normal os-prober: cannot start Mac OS X from grub menu on bugs.debian.org pending by Jan Beyer reported updated
- #544381 normal grub-pc: The os_prober does not include all the systems and entries are also not complete. on bugs.debian.org pending by Sridhar M.A. reported updated
- #542899 normal os-prober: please add a man page on bugs.debian.org pending by David Mohr reported updated
- #534646 normal os-prober: /boot/ incorrecctly prepended to kernel image on bugs.debian.org pending by Kevin Mitchell reported updated
- #534644 normal os-prober: ignores separate boot partition when mounted on bugs.debian.org pending by Kevin Mitchell reported updated
- #408571 normal FC4 not detected correctly on bugs.debian.org pending by André Felipe Machado reported updated
- #284058 normal Did not detect a Mac OS/X install on bugs.debian.org pending by ŁukaszStudziński reported updated
- #258545 normal dont install quik if bootX is detected on bugs.debian.org pending by Rick Thomas reported updated
- #668139 minor falls over a missing directory /var/lib/os-prober/mount on bugs.debian.org pending by martin f krafft reported updated
- #666261 minor [os-prober] "unknown udeb fuse-modules" when installing on bugs.debian.org pending by Filipus Klutiero reported updated patch
- #592834 minor grub-pc: File descriptor leaked on lvs invocation on bugs.debian.org pending by Wolfram Quester reported updated
- #1030938 wishlist os-prober: Does not detect OpenSuse Tumbleweed on bugs.debian.org pending by Frank McCormick reported updated
- #1014302 wishlist os-prober: efi shell detection on bugs.debian.org pending by Pat Riehecky reported updated
- #930454 wishlist os-prober: Please add 20microsoft efi/20microsoft probing on arm64 on bugs.debian.org pending by Dimitri John Ledkov reported updated
- #863688 wishlist os-prober: Source has witespace at end of lines. on bugs.debian.org pending by Mike Mestnik reported updated
- #806277 wishlist os-prober: should try to get linux kernel parameters from other Linuxes on bugs.debian.org pending by Christoph Anton Mitterer reported updated
- #806270 wishlist os-prober: should allow to select which block devices to scan and not scan any per default on bugs.debian.org pending by Christoph Anton Mitterer reported updated
- #772526 wishlist adjust the action of update-grub2 to bios_grub partitions on bugs.debian.org pending by lumin reported updated
- #650035 wishlist os-prober: Please enable quiet operation on bugs.debian.org pending by Bob Proulx reported updated
- #619872 wishlist os-prober: add appropriate codename to every kernel entry on bugs.debian.org pending by Aron Xu reported updated
- #600541 wishlist should detect windows encoding to properly convert windows boot title on bugs.debian.org pending by Christophe Lohr reported updated
- #539443 wishlist ReactOS detection on bugs.debian.org pending by Robert Millan reported updated patch
- #476349 wishlist please provide a '--quiet' option (or similar) on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #399882 wishlist boot-prober should support 'module' lines in grub config on bugs.debian.org pending by Michael Josenhans reported updated
- #258914 wishlist Should detect HP Recovery Partitions and tag them accordingly on bugs.debian.org pending by Jake Poznanski reported updated
- #250674 wishlist OS/2 support on bugs.debian.org pending by Herbert Kaminski reported updated
- #234470 wishlist please support *BSD on bugs.debian.org pending by Scott Cole reported updated