Initialize first to -1; this will create a (nearly) empty file on failure,

instead of looping until the disk is full.  This kind of failure can
especially happen when a version of awk that doesn't support POSIX
character classes is used.

Submitted by:	David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sys/boot/common/merge_help.awk b/sys/boot/common/merge_help.awk
index 9741ed3..02fbc4a 100644
--- a/sys/boot/common/merge_help.awk
+++ b/sys/boot/common/merge_help.awk
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 BEGIN \
 {
   state = 0;
-  first = 0;
+  first = -1;
   ind = 0;
 }