From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make partition active
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:54:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090304205420.GA31201@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0f59980903011952s35fe9138kb589753f83c9dd7b@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 11:52:13AM +0800, Bean wrote:
> > Then we could use parttool syntax. Then parttype can be implemented like
> > grub> parttool hd0,1 type=7
> > makeactive like:
> > grub> parttool hd0,1 boot+
> > And it can even be done by one command
> > grub> parttool hd0,1 boot+ type=7
> >
> > Thank you for your attention to my patches
>
> Hi,
>
> In that case, you might want to use options, which save you the
> trouble of parsing parameters yourself, for example:
>
> parttool [--boot] [--type N] partition
Why don't we make the syntax compatible with Parted? It supports
non-interactive mode, and is also a GNU project. Some consistency
between it and GRUB would be nice IMO.
(besides, there's also that project to integrate Parted with GRUB directly,
it used to be in gsoc)
--
Robert Millan
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-04 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-11 13:43 [PATCH] make partition active phcoder
2009-02-11 16:26 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-02-11 18:28 ` phcoder
2009-03-01 18:58 ` Bean
2009-03-01 21:20 ` phcoder
2009-03-02 3:52 ` Bean
2009-03-04 20:54 ` Robert Millan [this message]
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