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GroovyArcade live-CD 2022 (collaborative effort)
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--- Quote from: cools on April 16, 2019, 07:49:53 am ---Why not just have the initial boot be 15k on everything, then have a tool to configure outputs + grub menu proper?
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Sooner or later, this is what should happen + need a panic button/combo at boot to boot with default settings. But I'm still far from that for now.
--- Quote ---And an alternate ISO for LCD/31k boot. Heck, make an image with a FAT partition that when written to USB can have alternate boot configs swapped in.
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Why not!
--- Quote ---Of course, I'm assuming installation on writable storage, not static boot from CD/DVD.
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I really wonder who is still using DVDs today. I plan on adding some .img sooner or later, so you could just burn a USB stick with it
Calamity:
--- Quote from: Substring on April 16, 2019, 11:52:33 am ---
--- Quote from: cools on April 16, 2019, 07:49:53 am ---Why not just have the initial boot be 15k on everything, then have a tool to configure outputs + grub menu proper?
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Sooner or later, this is what should happen + need a panic button/combo at boot to boot with default settings. But I'm still far from that for now.
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I hate this strongly but I'm afraid it's the only way to do it. Maybe have a timeout at boot (I'm talking about the live-cd, not the installed system), so if you let it alone it'll just boot at 15 kHz through all outputs. Since boot menu is at 31 kHz, choosing an option has always been problematic on a 15 kHz monitor anyway. Optionally, you can press any key and select another boot option. This would make the 31 kHz distro unnecessary.
What needs to be checked is whether selecting an EDID without specifying an output actually enables all of them, even the ones that are NOT detected like those connected to arcade monitors through a JPAC. We might find out there was a good reason to force specific outputs on boot back in the day.
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Hey Calamity,
Do you have news from ves ? I haven't seen him around for a while on the forum, we do need him.
By the way : seems like we can make grub boot in 320x200, 320x240 or any VESA mode that the GPU would support. So cools' idea to have different grubs configured for various resolutions on a FAT32 boot partition is something that could be done on a .img people would burn to a USB key.
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Just a small update : I hope i'll be able to be on par with groovyarcade soon. For now the FE won't start due to some permission problems, shouldn't be that complicated to solve. Will then need to make sure gasetup works as before + will also have to use GA's default for syslinux bootloader.
keilmillerjr:
Free bump for awesome project!
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