[syslinux] "menu quit" entry causing prompt to freeze

[H. Peter Anvin]

Geert Stappers wrote:
> Op 20090430 om 00:52 schreef Dag Wieers:
>> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>>> Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
>>>
>>>>  2. Maybe set vk_type to a new value which represents localboot? VK_LOCAL?
>>>>  We could check for the "localboot" pseudo-kernel by just checking vk_type.
>>> Yes, I think that's the right thing to do.
>> I don't think a (menu) label with no kernel should do a localboot.
>> It seems the wrong (default) action, doing nothing at all seems more  
>> reasonable to me.
> 
> And 'doing nothing' 
> will mean "exit syslinux", resulting in a localboot ...
> 

"Doing nothing" should mean heading down the error path, which *usually*
ends up back at the prompt.  I have put that change into 3.80-pre5, but
I haven't had a chance to test it yet.  It actually made the code
substantially cleaner, too.

	-hpa

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