On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 01:50:42PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > If I boot into CentOS on my home server from a Live CD or USB stick > and go to Troubleshoot, it lists OS's it finds on the machine. > How does it find these OS's? > Presumably it looks through all the partitions on all the hard disks > for something that looks like an OS? > But how exactly does it identify an OS? I know that in el7, grub2 uses os-prober (http://joeyh.name/code/os-prober/), which is probably what it uses in the LiveCD. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>