On 18.01.2013, at 22:45, Duane Voth wrote: > I just looked into a shell2 crash that I often encounter and it turns out > that the call to GetDevicePathsForImageAndFile() in > ShellPkg/Application/Shell/Shell.c returns an error (ie. some file system > doesn't give up its device and file path info properly?) and then the shell > asserts. Shell1 never got this information either but it was able to proceed > without a problem. In shell1 (and in shell2 if I comment out the assert) the > following code in startup.nsh works fine: > > for %a in 3 2 1 0 > if exist fs%a:\startup.nsh then > fs%a: > endif > endfor > > meaning that with no dev or file path info the shell looks for and finds > startup.nsh in the default filesystem, and can then set the default device to > wherever the first startup.nsh is found. Sloppy yes, but far better than a > crash. > > I want to encourage only using asserts in cases where proceeding is > impossible.
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