Re: RE: Re: Getting Started

[Steve Burtchin]

On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 03:50:18 -0400 Steve Burtchin worte:
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>On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:17:15 +0200 Vladimir '?-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
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>On 07.04.2012 11:54, Steve Burtchin wrote:
>> GRUB Developers,
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>> Please help me get started developing GRUB2.  I would like to add some
>> additional functionality to the 'parttool' command (functionally
>> similar to the code changes I proposed for GRUB-Legacy).
>Could you give more details?
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>I had hoped I could answer the details question with a URL link, but I cannot find that

>bug report now. 

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I found the URL to the bug report.  It is http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?19410.  In summary (and more specifically), I wish to add the following features to the GRUB2 'parttool' command:

 

1) Create or delete a primary partition.  This functionality was provided by the 'partnew' command in GRUB Legacy.  See also http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?19389.

 

2) Edit extended partition tables (EPBRs).  This functionality was added to GRUB Legacy with the 'eptedit' command as described in bug report #19410.

 

NOTE: Not mentioned in the original bug report: with the ability to edit EPBRs, the potential number of logical partitions is limited only by the disk geometry for any SATA, PATA or SCSI disk.

 

Regards,

 

Steve Burtchin