Bug#249253: grub should report errors in menu.lst

Adam Lydick Adam Lydick <lydickaw@ruffledpenguin.org>, 249253@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 16 May 2004 03:33:35 -0700


Package: grub
Version: 0.94+cvs200404

It would be nice if grub would protect me from my own foolishness. I was
quite puzzled when I tried to dual boot XP and Debian from grub. I had a
typo in the menu.lst (noverifyroot vs. rootnoverify) and it just failed
with an obscure errors message about being unable to execute something
or other.

Expected behavior:
Blow up with an error or at least toss up an easy to see warning if
there are invalid entries in the menu.lst.