ventoy_grub.cfg usage

[balanga]

I tried following:-

https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_grubmenu.html

but on booting up Ventoy I get:-

ventoy_grub.cfg NOT exist.

I have gone through the instructions five or six times but end up with the same result.

What am I missing?

[longpanda]

Care about that the full file path /ventoy/ventoy_grub.cfg must be in lower case.

[Steve2926]

Are you using Windows Explorer and do you have 'Show Extensions' option enabled so you can see the file extension is .cfg and not .cfg.txt ???

[balanga]

Care about that the full file path /ventoy/ventoy_grub.cfg must be in lower case.

I have two partitions on a MBR drive, fat32 and exfat.

The fat32 partition contains EFI, grub, tool, ventoy directories among others

The exfat partition contains my ventoy_grub.cfg file which is a copy of the one in the example provided. This the directory I would normally store my ISOs.

When Ventoy loads and I press F6 it says ventoy_grub.cfg NOT exist.

I have tried this many times, including installing on different devices both configured as MBR and GPT.

It seems that i missing something fundamental here. If I try booting a normal ISO things work as they should.

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Are you using Windows Explorer and do you have 'Show Extensions' option enabled so you can see the file extension is  .cfg  and not .cfg.txt ???

I am using FreeBSD in text mode and can clearly see all filenames.

[Steve2926]

File should be /ventoy/ventoy_grub.cfg in large partition.

[nguyen ha thai trong]

file ventoy_grub.cfg under ventoy directory in the first partition, that is /ventoy/ventoy_grub.cfg and that's all.

[balanga]

file ventoy_grub.cfg under ventoy directory in the first partition, that is /ventoy/ventoy_grub.cfg and that's all.

I didn't realise I needed to create a ventoy directory in the first partition. I'm not sure the instructions mention this.

I have it working now.

Is it possible to have ventoy_grub.cfg appear in the first menu without having to select F6?

[nguyen ha thai trong]

• Special 
  VTOY_DEFAULT_IMAGE
  
•  Values
  

[*]You can use some special values for VTOY_DEFAULT_IMAGE.

Code:

VTOY_EXIT

[*]: Ventoy will exit after timeout.

Code:

Fn>xx>xx

[*]: Fn hotkey menu
{
    "control": [
        { "VTOY_MENU_TIMEOUT": "10" },
        { "VTOY_DEFAULT_IMAGE": "VTOY_EXIT" }
    ]
}


{
    "control": [
        { "VTOY_MENU_TIMEOUT": "10" },
        { "VTOY_DEFAULT_IMAGE": "F5>Power>Halt" }
    ]
}

{
    "control": [
        { "VTOY_MENU_TIMEOUT": "10" },
        { "VTOY_DEFAULT_IMAGE": "F4>Search and boot Windows" }
    ]
}

{
    "control": [
        { "VTOY_MENU_TIMEOUT": "10" },
        { "VTOY_DEFAULT_IMAGE": "F4>Boot the 1st local disk" }
    ]
}

{
    "control": [
        { "VTOY_MENU_TIMEOUT": "10" },
        { "VTOY_DEFAULT_IMAGE": "F5>Check plugin json configuration (ventoy.json)>Check theme plugin configuration" }
    ]
}


Full view here https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_control.html

[balanga]

I have tried changing ventoy.json several times, but my changes get reverted on rebooting.

[nguyen ha thai trong]

content ventoy.json
"control": [
        { "VTOY_DEFAULT_MENU_MODE": "1" },
        { "VTOY_MENU_TIMEOUT": "10" },
        { "VTOY_DEFAULT_IMAGE": "F6>" },
        { "VTOY_FILT_DOT_UNDERSCORE_FILE": "1" }       
    ],
.......