diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f4feae81153..7d9246e1369 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -58,12 +58,12 @@ Download OpenStreetMap extracts for example from [Geofabrik](http://download.geo
 
 Pre-process the extract with the car profile and start a routing engine HTTP server on port 5000
 
-    docker run -t -v "${PWD}:/data" ghcr.io/project-osrm/osrm-backend osrm-extract -p /opt/car.lua /data/berlin-latest.osm.pbf
+    docker run -t -v "${PWD}:/data" ghcr.io/project-osrm/osrm-backend osrm-extract -p /opt/car.lua /data/berlin-latest.osm.pbf || "osrm-extract failed"
 
 The flag `-v "${PWD}:/data"` creates the directory `/data` inside the docker container and makes the current working directory `"${PWD}"` available there. The file `/data/berlin-latest.osm.pbf` inside the container is referring to `"${PWD}/berlin-latest.osm.pbf"` on the host.
 
-    docker run -t -v "${PWD}:/data" ghcr.io/project-osrm/osrm-backend osrm-partition /data/berlin-latest.osrm
-    docker run -t -v "${PWD}:/data" ghcr.io/project-osrm/osrm-backend osrm-customize /data/berlin-latest.osrm
+    docker run -t -v "${PWD}:/data" ghcr.io/project-osrm/osrm-backend osrm-partition /data/berlin-latest.osrm || "osrm-partition failed"
+    docker run -t -v "${PWD}:/data" ghcr.io/project-osrm/osrm-backend osrm-customize /data/berlin-latest.osrm || "osrm-customize failed"
 
 Note there is no `berlin-latest.osrm` file, but multiple `berlin-latest.osrm.*` files, i.e. `berlin-latest.osrm` is not file path, but "base" path referring to set of files and there is an option to omit this `.osrm` suffix completely(e.g. `osrm-partition /data/berlin-latest`).