I got tired of flashing USB sticks and forgetting where my ventoy flash drive is, so for the past few days I’ve been building a right-click “reboot into this ISO/IMG/VHD” tool. It basically convinces ventoy to run without a USB drive. You can boot into almost any image format that ventoy normally supports. If boot fails, you will safely get back to windows or linux. (Got windows compatibility down first cuz, yknow, never seen a linux user struggle with creating a bootable drive)
interesting, how’s that work?
It’s basically ventoy (with nearly the full compatibility benefits of ventoy) but grub is modified enough to allow booting without a verified ventoy USB and directly boot into an ISO instead of waiting around. I know no one probably wants technical details, but in case they do…. this is kinda the simplified diagram. (of course there is more to it)
Why? You can install Ventoy directly to an SSD and boot from there. I know, ‘cuz I did 
well I mean… you’d lose the contents of the SSD, and if you modify the partitions, ventoy would start refusing to boot
Have you tried putting Ventoy on a USB stick, converting that into a VHDX, mounting that to add the ISOs you want, adding the VHDX to the Windows bootloader, and booting from it? No idea if that would actually work but it would save you the development effort.
The idea of using the .img file that I am is KINDA similar (img and vhdx can be seamlessly converted from one to the other). The problem is:
Either way, I have kinda already solved both so…
Also, the question I originally meant to ask is this ig,
”does the video demo look like a compelling software people (and by extension, you) would like to use if it were a stable software project”
Just in case anyone was interested, a test release is out over at GitHub - UsurperProject/YoRBo: You only ReBoot once - A USB less ISO/IMG etc. bootloader based on ventoy · GitHub now. Anyone willing to give it a try, test out how it works and report any bugs would be much appreciated.
