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Aaron Rainbolt

@cyrus The functionality in Ventoy is pretty close to one-of-a-kind. You can kind of mimic it with GRUB though. There's also a tool called Glim (github.com/thias/glim) that apparently makes setting up GRUB in this fashion easy. I haven't audited the code and can't vouch for its safety, but it might be worth looking at.

6 August at 8:37 | Open on theres.life
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Simon Müller :ablobcatcoffee:

@arraybolt3 I mean...Ventoy is based on GRUB2 soo... :blobcatthinkingglare:

6 August at 8:38 | Open on wetdry.world
Aaron Rainbolt

@cyrus Is it though? I believe it has GRUB binary blobs in the source code tree, but from my research it appears to have a lot of additional functionality (such as the ability to boot Windows ISOs, which generally don't take to the GRUB approach so well).

6 August at 8:41 | Open on theres.life
Simon Müller :ablobcatcoffee:

@arraybolt3 it is GRUB2, they have a bunch of custom scripts to extract and boot the required files from Windows ISOs manually

6 August at 8:42 | Open on wetdry.world
Robin B.

@cyrus @arraybolt3

Ventoy uses github.com/ValdikSS/Super-UEFI to boot unsigned ISOs on SecureBoot-Devices.
I haven't researched how to make it work with my own key - so I'm careful to delete the key afterwards or to not use the feature at all.

Using a grub2-solution like glim is sufficient for 99% of my use-cases, so I'm switching away from ventoy.
Making wimboot work with glim seems to be possible but experimental.. fortunately I don't need it.

6 August at 12:09 | Open on digitalcourage.social
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