Update UEFI_MULTI-42 plus the Addon-glim-agFM file
- UEFI_MULTI-42 Grub4dos menu.lst has entries to boot in BIOS mode straight with Win10XPE_x64.ISO and WinPE.iso
- UEFI_MULTI-42 can make new entries for booting Windows ISO files with Grub4dos in BIOS mode
- UEFI_MULTI-42 is compatible with
Ventoy USB Drive that was modified to have unhidden 130 MB FAT32 EFI Drive
- requires to adjust Ventoy EFI file grub\grub.cfg to make Ventoy Boot Menu with added Boot options for Windows Boot Manager and for Grub4dos and Grub2 Menu
USB Portable SSD - MultiBoot Ventoy Drive with support for booting VHD and WIM files in Windows BootManager Menu and booting Grub4dos Menu and Grub2 Menu
Ventoy EFI file grub\grub.cfg - File given in UEFI_MULTI-42\UEFI_MAN\ventoy-1.0.11\grub folder
......
terminal_output console
#colect all image files (iso files)
set ventoy_img_count=0
vt_list_img $iso_path ventoy_img_count
#Main menu
if [ $ventoy_img_count -gt 0 ]; then
if [ $VTOY_DEFAULT_MENU_MODE -eq 0 ]; then
vt_dynamic_menu 0 0
else
vt_dynamic_menu 0 1
fi
if [ "${grub_platform}" == "efi" ] -a [ -e "/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi" ]; then
menuentry "Windows EFI BootManager" {
chainloader /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
}
fi
if [ "${grub_platform}" == "pc" ] -a [ -e "/bootmgr" ]; then
menuentry "Windows BootManager" {
chainloader +1
}
fi
if [ "${grub_platform}" == "pc" ] -a [ -e "/grub.exe" ]; then
menuentry "Grub4dos Menu" {
linux /grub.exe
}
fi
if [ -e /grub_Linux.cfg ] -a [ -e "(hd0,msdos1)/images" ]; then
menuentry "Grub2 Menu" {
set iso_drive=(hd0,msdos1)
export iso_drive
configfile /grub_Linux.cfg
}
fi
else
menuentry "No ISO files found (Press enter to reboot ...)" {
echo -e "\n Rebooting ... "
reboot
}
fi
-
1. Ventoy2Disk.exe is used first to Format USB Portable SSD
2. Ventoy Hidden EFI Drive on USB must be made visible
- In Windows 10x64 use DiskPart > list vol and than select vol of EFI (in my case nr 14) - assign - EFI drive is mounted as e.g. Q:
- Also possible is: After booting with Win10XPE from RAMDISK the Hidden EFI Drive is auto mounted
3. Copy folders and files from Ventoy EFI drive to folder e.g. V_EFI on your harddisk
4. In Windows Explorer Format Ventoy and EFI drive with NTFS FileSystem
5. In Windows Disk Management Remove Ventoy EFI partition
6. Reduce Size of Ventoy NTFS drive by 100 MB
7. In unused space Create New simple Volume with Label EFI and Size 130 MB and Format with FAT32 FileSystem
8. Copy folders and files from V_EFI folder back to your new created EFI partition
9. Modify or Replace on Ventoy EFI drive file grub\grub.cfg as indicated above
10. Copy some Linux ISO file and / or Win10XPE_x64.ISO and WinPE.iso file and folder Win10XPE with WIM file to Ventoy NTFS drive
11. Use UEFI_MULTI_x64.exe in Win10x64 OS - Select EFI drive as Boot Drive and Ventoy drive as System drive
12. Use UEFI_MULTI_x64.exe in Win10x64 OS - Select PE WIM e.g. boot.wim or Win10XPE.wim file Or Win10x64.vhd as Boot Image file
13. Click GO to make MultiBoot Ventoy Drive booting with WIM and VHD file in Windows BootManager and booting with Grub4dos Menu and Grub2 Menu