Re: Parted/GRUB joint-venture

[adrian15 <adrian15@raulete.net>]

> Hello,
> 
>   I am the representative of GNU Parted and am also interested in the
> development of GRUB2 (I've been lurking on this list for some months).
>   James from the GNU SoC team wrote me:
> <<EOQ
> There is a project suggestion relating to GRUB which relates to
> libparted.  Please get in touch with the maintainers of GRUB (e.g.
> Yoshinori K. Okuji) to discuss that project and ensure it has the best
> chance of getting good guidance and is successful.   The project
> doesn't have to end up in just GRUB or just Parted, it's just that I'm
> looking to make sure that the idea works well and flourishes.
> EOQ

I do not know if okuji has talked to you directly.
Have you seen this?

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-soc.html
Parted integration
Integrate GNU Parted's library (libparted) with GRUB so that we can make 
use of the full power of the Parted's functionality at boot time.

Parted supports creation, deletion, resizing of partitions and 
filesystems. These features are extremely useful when you get troubled 
or have a complicated boot environment. Because libparted uses some 
external libraries, you will have to think how to make things run on the 
GRUB's environment, where you cannot use POSIX or Unix system calls.

This should be implemented as an optional dynamic module by using the 
module loading feature in GRUB 2.

adrian15