Am Dienstag, den 10.11.2009, 11:35 +0200 schrieb Amit Dor-Shifer: > reposting, +bug-grub. > Any takers? > > <shell> > cm.stargate ~ # cat /tmp/grub.inst > root (hd1,0) > setup --prefix=/no/such/place (hd1) > cm.stargate ~ # cat /tmp/grub.inst |grub --batch --device-map > /tmp/device_map.grub > > > GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 7168K upper memory) > > [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, > TAB > lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the > possible > completions of a device/filename. ] > grub> root (hd1,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > grub> setup --prefix=/no/such/place (hd1) > Checking if "/no/such/place/stage1" exists... no > > Error 15: File not found > grub> cm.stargate ~ # echo $? > 0 > </shell> > > I expected grub to return the error code (15), or at least indicate > through its return code that something went wrong. > How can I get a real exit code from grub? > 10x, > Amit >
Just use grub2. There you won't have the problem that a failing command still returns an exit code of 0 It just doestn't have anymore that broken grub shell. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub