Re: normal does not load if there was an error processing embedded config

[Andrei Borzenkov]

В Sat, 28 Feb 2015 19:11:51 +0100
"Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" <address@hidden> пишет:

> Could you use grub-print-error rather than just resetting error? And we
> should do it after every command in embedded config


Like below? Note that if loading of normal.mod succeeds these errors are
lost anyway. There was at least one report where skipping loading in
this case would actually make diagnostic easier (signed EFI image with
missing filesystem driver for /boot). But I'm not sure if anyone
depends on current behavior. grub-mkrescue definitely does :)

From: Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden>
Subject: [PATCH] kernel: reset grub_errno before loading normal

If last command in embedded config set grub_errno, loading of
normal fails. As we do not really check for any errors during
processing of embedded config and cannot handle error that happened
in the middle of it, just ignore error and hope for the best.

Add also printing of errors during embedded config processing to
facilitate diagnostic as suggested by Vladimir.

---
 grub-core/kern/main.c   | 2 ++
 grub-core/kern/parser.c | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/grub-core/kern/main.c b/grub-core/kern/main.c
index 9cad0c4..22483b6 100644
--- a/grub-core/kern/main.c
+++ b/grub-core/kern/main.c
@@ -304,6 +304,8 @@ grub_main (void)
 
   if (load_config)
     grub_parser_execute (load_config);
+  /* Reset error, otherwise loading of normal.mod fails */
+  grub_errno = GRUB_ERR_NONE;
 
   grub_boot_time ("After execution of embedded config. Attempt to go to normal 
mode");
 
diff --git a/grub-core/kern/parser.c b/grub-core/kern/parser.c
index b9bd123..13acb6c 100644
--- a/grub-core/kern/parser.c
+++ b/grub-core/kern/parser.c
@@ -265,9 +265,11 @@ grub_parser_execute (char *source)
     {
       char *line;
 
+      grub_errno = GRUB_ERR_NONE;
       grub_parser_execute_getline (&line, 0, &source);
       grub_rescue_parse_line (line, grub_parser_execute_getline, &source);
       grub_free (line);
+      grub_print_error ();
     }
 
   return grub_errno;
-- 
tg: (018f79d..) u/reset-error-before-normal (depends on: master)