diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh b/tools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh
index 56284b98d8f0bc263515543820fb07eafd537b77..95eec768b503ad8a6ff5a82d2413979b7ce8ca31 100755
--- a/tools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh
@@ -137,6 +137,18 @@ $BOOTCONF $INITRD > $TEMPCONF
 cat $TEMPCONF
 xpass grep \'\"string\"\' $TEMPCONF
 
+echo "Repeat same-key tree"
+cat > $TEMPCONF << EOF
+foo
+bar
+foo { buz }
+EOF
+echo > $INITRD
+
+xpass $BOOTCONF -a $TEMPCONF $INITRD
+$BOOTCONF $INITRD > $OUTFILE
+xpass grep -q "bar" $OUTFILE
+
 echo "=== expected failure cases ==="
 for i in samples/bad-* ; do
   xfail $BOOTCONF -a $i $INITRD