⚙️Configuration
Setting your bootloader up.
The bootloader can be configured in various ways, like the selection of the boot style. When GRILO starts for the first time, the application creates the following files and folders necessary for the configuration:
%LOCALAPPDATA%/GRILO
on Windows systems$HOME/.config/GRILO
on Linux systems
The configuration files and folders within the directory are made by GRILO itself:
BootloaderConfig.json
This file stores all the bootloader configuration options.
The type is a file
Styles
Lists all the custom boot styles
The type is a folder
Bootables
Stores all the folders that contain bootable applications inside
The type is a folder
BootloaderDebug.log
Stores all the debugging messages that come from the bootloader
The type is a file
Let's start with the configuration file, as this page covers the general GRILO configuration.
Configuration
Typical GRILO configuration files start with this:
The following configuration descriptions are listed below:
Boot style
Stores the name of the boot style
The type of this variable is a string
Diagnostic messages
Whether to enable storing the diagnostic messages to the
BootloaderDebug.log
fileThe type of this variable is a boolean
Additional bootable folders
An array of complete file paths to additional bootable folders for the scanner to use
The type of this variable is an array of strings
Timeout to boot to selection
Timeout in seconds to boot to selection if no key is pressed
The type of this variable is an integer
Default boot entry selection
Zero-based choice number for the default boot entry
The type of this variable is an integer
Each time GRILO starts up, it checks the settings file for any values and installs them to the bootloader, making it configurable.
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