From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JLPFv-0002kO-U8 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:46:31 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLPFt-0002iz-U9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:46:29 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLPFp-0002gV-Pg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:46:28 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JLPFp-0002gS-L5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:46:25 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JLPFp-0003Ut-Cb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:46:25 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JLPFZ-0002yZ-FT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:46:10 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JLPDU-00007h-Fa for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:44:00 +0100 Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:44:00 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: grub-devel@gnu.org Message-ID: <20080202204400.GA346@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: grub.cfg parser still doesn't abort on error X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:46:30 -0000 Try the following grub.cfg: cat (memdisk)/non-existant-file echo this point should never be reached read You'll see that the echo is reached, even if cat returned an error. This becomes much worse when found in situations like: font (xxx)/some-file.pff terminal gfxterm and the font wasn't loaded. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)