Default image plugin bug

[ghost]

Default image in my ventoy.json is pop os iso file but boots me into kali linux by default. On checking in tools and global ventoy configuration everything seems fine and ok.

[ventoy]

Please give your ventoy.json file and your boot menu screenshot.

[ghost]

Please give your ventoy.json file and your boot menu screenshot.

{
"control": [
{ "VTOY_DEFAULT_MENU_MODE": "1" },
{ "VTOY_DEFAULT_SEARCH_ROOT": "/ISO" },
{ "VTOY_FILT_DOT_UNDERSCORE_FILE": "1" },
{ "VTOY_MENU_TIMEOUT": "10" },
{ "VTOY_DEFAULT_IMAGE": "/ISO/pop-os_20.10_amd64_nvidia_1.iso" }
],

"theme": {
    "file": "/ventoy/theme/theme.txt",        
    "display_mode": "GUI",
    "ventoy_left": "5%",
    "ventoy_top": "95%",
    "ventoy_color": "#ffffff"
},


"menu_class": [        
    {
        "key": "ubuntu",
        "class": "ubuntu"
    },        
    {
        "key": "deepin",
        "class": "deepin"
    },
    {
        "dir": "rhel",
        "class": "red-hat"
    }
],

"menu_alias": [
    {
        "image": "/ISO/MX-19.1_x64.iso",
        "alias": "MX 19.1 ISO file For me"
    },
    {
        "image": "/cn_windows_10_enterprise_ltsc_2019_x64_dvd_9c09ff24.iso",
        "alias": "我的 Windows 10 系统"
    }
],

"auto_install": [
    {
        "image": "/ISO/cn_windows_10.iso",
        "template": "/ventoy/script/windows_unattended.cfg"
    },
    {
        "image": "/ISO/cn_windows_server_2012_r2_vl_x64_dvd_2979220.iso",
        "template": [
            "/ventoy/script/windows_unattended1.xml",
            "/ventoy/script/windows_unattended2.xml",
            "/ventoy/script/windows_unattended3.xml",
            "/ventoy/script/windows_unattended4.xml",
            "/ventoy/script/windows_unattended5.xml",
            "/ventoy/script/windows_unattended6.xml"
        ]
    }
]

}

[ghost]

list of iso i use (they are too many. Sorry but your software is addictive.)

[ghost]

some more info-
screenshots and video.
please check this

bug.zip

[ghost]

my opinion,
there is a limit of 13 or 14 in default image plugin.
it scanned till letter k , which is kali could not reach p which is pop os. something is wrong with sorting. i suppose if pop started with a then it would work properly like apop.iso

looks like there is a limit to scanning iso for ventoy default pluging. the last one is 13 or 14.

try keeping atleast 15 isos in a drive you shall notice this after fifteenth iso fil definately.

-edit
This is wrong I was wrong.
Got exactly what is happening.
Please check the next post.

[ghost]

After changing name of pop.iso to apop.iso still boots kali linux.

Looks like something went wrong during last update when kali linux 2020.3 was supported
So nothing wrong with sorting I believe.

-edit I am wrong
Please check the next post

[ghost]

Sorry I just got it what exactly is happening.

Understand this carefully,
Ventoy is misbehaving

What I did was took a 128 gb usb and reserved 25 gb space. So now ventoy partition has 100 gb for iso files.

Then I partitioned that 25 gb into 2 .

One 5 gb partition and one 20 gb partition.

Then I used 20 gb fat32 as shared partition which you earlier suggested to keep my files and store and modify them in live session of ventoy.

Listen from here extra carefully.

Now I used a GitHub project called unetbootin. It allows us to boot into a partition so I formatted the 5 gb fat32 and installed kali linux on it so that I get macbook support. You should be knowing that ventoy doesn't work well on macos so this partition could be used to boot kali linux on macbook if needed.

Your default image plugin is booting me into that unetbootin kali linux partion. That's crazy.

Please don't get mad at me I am really sorry for bothering

Here is screenshot of the partition table of the unlucky usb

Keywords-
Engine- main ventoy partition with all iso files
Cargo- shared folders for iso files
Reserves - kali linux for macbook.

I want to share my research also on enabling macbook support. Should I start it as a new issue or continue in this thread.

What I have found is a way to enable macbook support in ventoy and improving iso support in general for ventoy

[ventoy]

Please test with 1.0.27

[ghost]

Please test with 1.0.27

You are a LEGEND.

[ventoy]

Anything else?

[ghost]

Yeah I am closing this thread for now. Will be creating a new one soon a week or two later and will share everything I know that you can do to add macbook support to ventoy. It will be kind of experimental beta release.