"os-prober: debug: running" logs could be seen in /var/log/messages related to disks

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • /var/log/messages shows several below logs frequently:
Sep  7 16:46:00 hostname: os-prober: debug: running /usr/libexec/os-probes/mounted/05efi on mounted /dev/nvme0n1p1
Sep  7 16:46:00 hostname: 05efi: debug: /dev/nvme0n1p1 is a FAT32 partition
Sep  7 16:46:00 hostname: 05efi: debug: /dev/nvme0n1p1 partition scheme is gpt
Sep  7 16:46:00 hostname: 05efi: debug: /dev/nvme0n1p1 partition type is c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
Sep  7 16:46:00 hostanme: 05efi: debug: running subtest /usr/libexec/os-probes/mounted/efi/10elilo
Sep  7 16:46:00 hostanme: 05efi: debug: running subtest /usr/libexec/os-probes/mounted/efi/20microsoft
Sep  7 16:46:00 hostname: os-prober: debug: running /usr/libexec/os-probes/mounted/10freedos on mounted /dev/nvme0n1p1
Sep  7 16:46:00 hostname: 10freedos: debug: /dev/nvme0n1p1 is a FAT32 partition
Sep  7 16:46:00 hostname: os-prober: debug: running /usr/libexec/os-probes/mounted/10qnx on mounted /dev/nvme0n1p1
Sep  7 16:46:00 hostname: 10qnx: debug: /dev/nvme0n1p1 is not a QNX4 partition: exiting
Sep  7 16:46:00 hostname: os-prober: debug: running /usr/libexec/os-probes/mounted/20macosx on mounted /dev/nvme0n1p1
Sep  7 16:46:00 macosx-prober[114150]: debug: /dev/nvme0n1p1 is not an HFS+ partition: exiting
Sep  7 16:46:00 hostname: os-prober: debug: running /usr/libexec/os-probes/mounted/20microsoft on mounted /dev/nvme0n1p1
Sep  7 16:46:00 hostname: 20microsoft: debug: Skipping legacy bootloaders on UEFI system
Sep  7 16:46:00 hostname: os-prober: debug: running /usr/libexec/os-probes/mounted/30utility on mounted /dev/nvme0n1p1
Sep  7 16:46:00 hostname: 30utility: debug: /dev/nvme0n1p1 is a FAT32 partition
Sep  7 16:46:00 hostname: os-prober: debug: running /usr/libexec/os-probes/mounted/40lsb on mounted /dev/nvme0n1p1
Sep  7 16:46:00 hostname: os-prober: debug: running /usr/libexec/os-probes/mounted/70hurd on mounted /dev/nvme0n1p1

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • os-prober

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