Forum: EasyBoot
Topic: Feature Request:Hotkey to force use of default.ezb
started by: Hannes
Posted by Hannes on Jan. 12 2005,12:34
I've redone all my menus in 1024x768 65k colors. I'm in the process of adding back in my old 640x480 256 color menus as a fallback just in case I run into a machine that does not support the 1024x768x65K colors.

I was thinking that it might be really cool to have a "hotkey" that could be pressed while the boot loader is loading to force the system to fallback to the lower graphics. This would make it easier for testing.

I know that I can simply change my main menu to the default.ezb and reburn it but since my DVD is several GB in size it takes a while to reburn an ISO for testing.

It would be awesome if you could just press a key to force the system to use default.ezb at startup!

Hannes
Posted by Incroyable HULK on Jan. 12 2005,15:48
I was thinking to build my project with a similar "fallback" solution.
I am using 1024x768x24Bits setup and if I have a white background, I can write some text over the white portion with EasyBoot (in white) so if something goes wrong, EasyBoot will put a black background and my white text will show...

Posted by xoben on Jan. 17 2005,00:37
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I was thinking that it might be really cool to have a "hotkey" that could be pressed while the boot loader is loading to force the system to fallback to the lower graphics. This would make it easier for testing.

My suggestion is using VMWare to test your multi-boot menu before burn.

Posted by Hannes on Jan. 21 2005,19:59
I do test with Vmware but as it stands I have to recreate the ISO all over again to test with VMware. I just thought it would be nice to have a hotkey to force use of the default.ezb.

Currently I worked around by adding a key combination to the main menu that calls the default.ezb. After testing I can remove that shortcut and rebuild the ISO again.

Hannes