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Subject: Re: grub.cfg parser still doesn't abort on error
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Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> writes:

> 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.

Urgh!  Bean committed a patch that zero'ed the error.  Perhaps it was
wrong? ;-)

Can you try reverting it? :-)

--
Marco