OpenCore boot menu strange issue

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Hi,

having a strange issue, on the boot menu selection, it defaults to macos (fine), sometimes when I select windows (up arrow) too quickly, without waiting a second, it'll press my selection arrow twice, I.E. instead of going to Windows above macos, it'll end up at the bottom of the list?

Anything I can do to change this?

It never occured on previous macos versions/older OpenCore versions?
 
Sounds like you are using the Text based Picker List on the OpenCore boot screen. Switching to the OpenCore GUI boot screen might help with the problem, as it is less likely you will double hit the left arrow when selecting the Windows icon.

See this section of the Dortania guide for details on how tow to change from the Picker List to the GUI boot screen.

 
Sounds like you are using the Text based Picker List on the OpenCore boot screen. Switching to the OpenCore GUI boot screen might help with the problem, as it is less likely you will double hit the left arrow when selecting the Windows icon.

See this section of the Dortania guide for details on how tow to change from the Picker List to the GUI boot screen.


Ironically, it was doing exactly that with OpenCanopy :(
It kept selecting ClearNVRAM everytime I selected Windows!

So I've reverted back to text-based, and it still does it?

Any ideas? I changed Pickermode: 17 to 1, as it had the same issue when using 'Builtin', PickerVariant: Auto, and that made no difference.
 
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