Another neat "pick an OS to boot into" tool I discovered recently is Ventoy [1]. You install the bootable menu on your USB drive, and then you just drop ISOs or IMGs on there to add choices.
I spent some trying to boot from it, couldn't get it work. Couldnt find any help anywhere, so went back to the old boring tools that just work.
From the description of the project it doesn't seem running from a dedicated hard-drive partition is an actual goal of the project. I don't know that making choices which don't support a non-goal of a project are questionable.
It works great for my use case of booting from a USB drive and I very much appreciate that it exists.
This "goal" would require a grand total of 2 changes.
> It works great for my use case of booting from a USB drive and I very much appreciate that it exists.
It's just like grubfm - a few files + a heuristic to use these with isos to make them bootable.
It seems like the person that suggested it can't compile ventoy as it requires a particular version of fedora.
This needs somebody to compile ventoy and make a PR.
Tabgentially it seems like the solving the issue where it needs an old version of fedora would make it easier for others to participate.
The best way of moving this forward would be to free up a block of time and either work on a PR, or if not that a PR to make ventoy compilable on more distros.
Personally, I see a lack of interest and a lack of desire to expand the functionality
> It seems like the person that suggested it can't compile ventoy as it requires a particular version of fedora.
Yes, that was me.
> This needs somebody to compile ventoy and make a PR.
As you may guess by how I explained the problem and the solution (with code!), I would be happy to make a PR, but I don't want to waste more time by writing code that won't be merged.
> solving the issue where it needs an old version of fedora would make it easier for others to participate
Yes, that too
But given the lack of interest by the maintainer of the low hanging fruit of making ventoy usable on partitions, even when it would bring the side benefit of respecting the block size of removable media (like thumbdrives, SD cards...) I think working on either would be a waste of time :(
> The best way of moving this forward would be to free up a block of time and either work on a PR, or if not that a PR to make ventoy compilable on more distros.
A week ago, someone started a fork for a better integration with other tools.
If you want to join in to fix the compilation issues (so that it doesn't require a specific old Fedora for example) I'll be happy to fix the partition stuff.
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