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[@thehop]

News ...   https://www.ventoy.n...n/doc_news.html
 

Ventoy News

• 2020/10/17 --- 1.0.24 release

• Disable "Pass parameter by ACPI table" feature introduced in 1.0.23 by default. It's not compatible with Windows 7/8 and will cause error.
• Fix apt mirror bug when install Debian series distros
• New iso support
  • debian-10.6.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso (Legacy + UEFI)
  • debian-10.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso (Legacy + UEFI)

 

Edited by @thehop, 19 October 2020 - 07:53 AM.

[ventoy]

• 2020/10/24 --- 1.0.26 release

1. Support dual mode plugin options. Notes
2. Display a warning message if syntax error detected in ventoy.json.
3. Use the original order from image list plugin (if exist) in boot menu. Notes
4. vtoyboot-1.0.3 release Notes
5. Optimization for the tip message in Ventoy2Disk.sh

[ventoy]

• 2020/10/31 --- 1.0.27 release

1. New Boot Conf Replace Plugin to dynamically modify the boot options in configuration file. Notes
2. Add an menu to enter Text Mode in F5 Tools ==> Screen Display Mode
3. Fix issue #555 (treeview mode VTOY_DEFAULT_IMAGE ineffective in special case)
4. vtoyboot-1.0.4 release. Notes
5. New iso support
   • 2020-02-12-rpd-x86-buster.iso (Legacy + UEFI)
   • FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso (Legacy + UEFI)
   • FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso (Legacy)

[kyl]

for everyone who wants to install it on disk with different partition layout:

u can swap partition numbers in gdisk: x -> t and enter two partitions numbers u want to swap

[kyl]

for everyone who wants to install it on disk with different partition layout:

u can swap partition numbers in gdisk: x -> t and enter two partitions numbers u want to swap

ok, this works on dell laptop, DO NOT try it on HP coz it messed up harddisk booting

[alacran]

From: http://reboot.pro/to...e-5#entry217213

 

It would be good if we could run Ventoy from internal HD (on MBR/CSM and/or UEFI environments), not only from a USB device.

 

Thanks to Vortex for his post: http://reboot.pro/to...e-5#entry217214

 

Can I install Ventoy to local disk ?

Yes !    You can install Ventoy to USB drive, Removable HD, SD Card, SATA HDD, SSD, NVMe ...

In Windows, Ventoy2Disk.exe will only list the device removable and in USB interface type by default. If you want you can run from cmd Ventoy2Disk.exe -U then all the devices will be in the list.

In this case you must take care about the list and make sure to select the right disk.

In Linux, you need to specify the device to install Ventoy which can be a USB drive or local disk.

 

 

It should be specially noted that, no matter USB drive or local disk, all the data will be lost after install Ventoy, please be very careful.

 

 

 

https://www.ventoy.net/en/faq.html

 

Thanks for your answer, but ufortunatelly it is not what I would like to do.

 

I was thinking in chainloading to Ventoy from grub4dos or grub2, not in installing it as the main bootmanager and loose al info on one of the the internal HDs, in fact on this PC I have 2 internal HDs, both MBR formated.

 

The first HD first primary active Partition is NTFS for MBR booting Win7, Win10 and several VHDs, ISOs & WIMs files, that can be ran by means of Win bootmgr, grub4dos or agFM.

 

The second HD (MBR formated too) first primary partition is FAT-32 for UEFI booting, by means of BootIce I created 2 additional entries so now using the boot override key (F8) there are 3 options to boot on UEFI

• The standard MS Windos:  \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi (unmodified)
• Grub2: \EFI\Boot\BOOTX64.EFI  >>>  Created using BootIce
• grub4dos for UEFI: \EFI\Boot\bootx64_g4d.efi  >>>  Created using BootIce

Grub2: On \grub\grub.cfg there are entries to chainload to:

• The standard MS Windos:  /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
• grub4dos for UEFI: /EFI/Boot/bootx64_g4d.efi
• agFM: /EFI/Boot/grubfmx64.efi

grub4dos for UEFI: On \EFI\grub\menu.lst there are entries to chainload to:

• The standard MS Windos:  /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi  >>> Not working fine yet, see NOTE
• Grub2: /EFI/Boot/BOOTX64.EFI
• agFM: /EFI/Boot/grubfmx64.efi

NOTE: Not working fine yet, but chainloading to grub2 first, then it can can be called, and we get MS Boot Menu.

 

I used as a guide the USB_FORMAT tool from wimb, wich I used to format a USB device and just copied all content of U-BOOT partition to my FAT-32 partition, edited the BCD and added the grub4dos for UEFI renamed file on FAT-32 partition \EFI\Boot\bootx64_g4d.efi, created my menu.lst on \EFI\grub\menu.lst and made the entries and finally edited the \grub\grub.cfg, after this just created the new entries on UEFI by means of BootIce as said.

 

Ventoy starting from version 1.0.28 has this note on page: https://www.ventoy.n...n/doc_news.html

 

2020/11/14 --- 1.0.28 release

Prohibit the use of Ventoy in unofficial environments. Notes

 

So it will not work if it is on a partition layout not created by itself.

 

alacran

[Wonko the Sane]

 

Ventoy starting from version 1.0.28 has this note on page: https://www.ventoy.n...n/doc_news.html

 

So it will not work if it is not on a partition layout not created by itself.

 

alacran

 

Sad news

 

And even sadder considering that the topic has been explicitly talked about with the Author by Steve6375 and by myself and - seemingly - we had managed to convince him that it wasn't a sensible approach to force users to use the ventoy2disk in all cases.

 

Ah well, yet another "all your bases are belong to us" approach, not the first, not the last, but still saddening .

 

Wonko

[alacran]

Yes, I was thinking it could be very nice to chainload to Ventoy during boot and then ready to run a Linux VHD on the PC, and not being forced to install the distro on a partition and deal with the stupid automatic config created during the installation, that is very hard to manually set to the user preferences or desires. and will destroy all my current boot alternatives.

 

EDIT: I don't like the VM alternative.

 

alacran

[steve6375]

I have recompiled Ventoy so it doesn't test for the unique partition arrangement.

The new version is called 'Ventoy for Easy2Boot'.

I have written instructions on how to compile your own version.

http://rmprepusb.blo...boot-v1029.html

 

All other functionality is identical (i.e. payload files on partition 1, etc.).

[devdevadev]

Hi..LongPanda..

 

7za  x  -y  -aoa  -oX:   startup_vtoy.7z

 

Suppose I using 'Injection Plugin' in ventoy.json, then it will extract the files of the 'startup_vtoy.7z' to the root of X: Drive as follows -

 

 

X:/Windows/System3/winpeshl.ini -

===============================

[LaunchApps]

%SystemRoot%\system32\wpeinit.exe

%SystemRoot%\system32\netstart.exe

x:\windows\system32\startup_vtoy.bat

 

 

X:/Windows/System3/starup_vtoy.bat -

==================================

cmd /q /c  "FOR %%i IN (C D E F G H I J K L N M O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%i:\_ISO\WINDOWS\INSTALLS\CONFIGS\INSTALL_WIN_VTOY.CMD  cmd /k %%i:\_ISO\WINDOWS\INSTALLS\CONFIGS\INSTALL_WIN_VTOY.CMD"

 

 

INSTALL_WIN_VTOY.CMD -

=====================

copy %XML% %USBDRIVE%\logs\AutoUnattend.xml >nul 2>nul

if exist X:\Setup.exe X:\setup.exe /unattend:%XML%

if exist X:\Setup.exe goto :End

if exist X:\Sources\Setup.exe X:\Sources\setup.exe /unattend:%XML%

if exist X:\Sources\Setup.exe goto :End

 

 

In this file I want to continue Windows Installation setup by running 'setup.exe' along with the XML file which is choosen in Ventoy screen. So what exact location of the XML file I should use in above setup.exe command ?

 

Can you please tell me where Ventoy actually copy the choosen XML file ?

Does Ventoy copy the choosen XML file within X: Directory ?

 

XML= ?????

 

Does Ventoy using any .cmd or .bat file which run 'setup.exe' along with %XML% ? If so then please provide codes of that batch file which run 'setup.exe' at the end....??

[alacran]

JFYI

 

Just to let you know linuxmint-20.1-cinnamon-64bit.iso also works fine using Ventoy Persistence Plugin.

 

alacran

[Tokener]

Hello friends of the Ventoy tool
By chance I have noticed a regularity in the behavior of the Ventoy boot tool that is not documented:
Ventoy refuses to boot Windows-PE ISOs whose boot.wim is larger than ~1024MB.
Since the manufacturer of Ventoy is interested in such facts I reported it in his forum.

This is not cross-posting, I just want to know if anyone has noticed this behavior.
 

Best regards   T.

 

 

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

 

 

 

 

 

[steve6375]

Easy2Boot's latest Beta of agFM (grubfm) now allows you to add Ventoy partition images to your Easy2Boot USB drive.

A .cmd file is provided which automatically downloads the latest version of Ventoy (whatever it is) and makes the new partition image files.

Three different Ventoy images are made, the first two are the same as the two options you get when using the Ventoy maker tool - Secure with MokManager or non-secure. The third Ventoy image includes the Kaspersky shim so that you can Secure UEFI64-Boot to Ventoy without needing to use Mok Manager (as long as the Kaspersky shim is not blocked in the UEFI BIOS DBx blacklist).

https://easy2boot.xy...l-ventoy-image/

[alacran]

New Ventoy 2021/07/17 --- 1.0.47 release: https://www.ventoy.n...n/doc_news.html

 

 

1. Optimizations for booting openwrt
2. Support some floppy images in Memdisk mode
3. Remove the 2TB limit for the reserved space in Ventoy2Disk.exe
4. Fixed a bug when booting big boot.wim file.
5. Compatibility improvement for WinPE which contains PECMD.EXE
6. Fix Parabola rEFInd booting (#989)
7. Add check for the built-in browser in WebDeepin.sh
8. Speedup md5sum/sha1sum/sha256sum/sha512sum command
9. vtoyboot-1.0.16 release. Fixed the corruption after update kernel or install Nvidia driver.Notes
10. vdiskchain-1.3 release. Notes
11. languages.ini update
12. New image support
    • HBCD_PE_x64.iso v1.0.2 (Legacy + UEFI)
    • MocaccinoOS-MATE-0.20210714.iso (Legacy + UEFI)

 

Blue remarks are mine.

 

alacran

[steve6375]

E2B includes Ventoy 1.0.47 (modified slightly to run on a E2B USB drive).

[alacran]

Hi steve6375, It's good to see you around, even if you lately only post to advertise your program.       

 

Just joking. No offence intended. I have being a big fan of your programs since the very first versions of RMPrepUSB.

 

But talking seriously, I was expecting more interest from you in grub4dos for UEFI, and maybe some of your always good comments, as you have always being here in reboot.pro the master of many of us in grub4dos (MBR version).

 

alacran

[alacran]

JFYI

 

Wim files made using Make_PE program by wimb also boot very fine in Ventoy.

 

From this post:

 

 

Forgot to comment I can also confirm SMALL and MEDIUM versions *.wim files run very fine from Ventoy

 

 

alacran

[steve6375]

Hi steve6375, It's good to see you around, even if you lately only post to advertise your program.       
 
Just joking. No offence intended. I have being a big fan of your programs since the very first versions of RMPrepUSB.
 
But talking seriously, I was expecting more interest from you in grub4dos for UEFI, and maybe some of your always good comments, as you have always being here in reboot.pro the master of many of us in grub4dos (MBR version).
 
alacran

Sorry, I must have missed this old post.
I would love to use grub4efi more, but it is not compatible with the wimboot efi code module. This means it can't boot wim files and so makes booting directly from a windows install iso difficult, esp as ntboot for efi is very buggy.
Basically, until grub4efi can use the wimboot module, grub2 is the only viable solution.

[rvio]

Hello, after using Ventoy to install Windows 11 with GPT on a new SSD Windows will not boot.

The only way to get it to boot is to load Ventoy then select:

F4:Localboot -> Search and boot BOOTX64.EFI

Is there any way to fix this?


UEFI booting is enabled in the BIOS.

I did have Windows 11 with MBR installed previously using Ventoy and it was booting fine.
 

[rvio]

Never mind guys, I fixed it using startup repair. Thought I'd tried that already but it was on the other install that I had corrupted. Awesome tool btw, thanks!

[Camiel]

A simple inquiry before looking in to it and find out it was a waste of time.

Is Ventoy going to help me boot mbr/bios wimboot [by "wimb" that is, not PE] dynamic vhds from ram, or should I just stick with grub4dos for the time be ?

 

[Camiel]

A simple inquiry before looking in to it and find out it was a waste of time.

Is Ventoy going to help me boot mbr/bios wimboot [by "wimb" that is, not PE] dynamic vhds from ram, or should I just stick with grub4dos for the time be ?

 

[hellbraker]

If any one can test this for me. Try booting the Devuan varient of Peppermint OS through Ventoy. The last time I tried, it couldn't boot the ISO.

[hellbraker]

If any one can test this for me. Try booting the Devuan varient of Peppermint OS through Ventoy. The last time I tried, it couldn't boot the ISO.