[HN Gopher] Ventoy
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Ventoy
Author : matthberg
Score : 357 points
Date : 2023-12-17 11:23 UTC (1 days ago)
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| bcye wrote:
| So you can boot from a USB that already has other files on it or
| just other isos?
| vorticalbox wrote:
| You can put other files on it too.
|
| It is basically a bootloader that lists all the Isos on the
| drive and let's you boot them.
|
| I have a handful of Isos and it's a good send
| rocky_raccoon wrote:
| I like "good send" -- it's a bit less hyperbolic than
| "Godsend".
| bcye wrote:
| This is absolutely amazing. Having to clear out a usb just to
| boot a live image is really annoying (still need to format
| the usbs with it at the beginning though)
| drewzero1 wrote:
| Yes- it formats the USB when you install Ventoy (to add an EFI
| partition) but after that you can put other files on it in
| addition to the ISOs. It will only show the ISOs in the boot
| menu and ignore the other files.
| jtriangle wrote:
| And those other files can include bios files, drivers, etc
| drewzero1 wrote:
| If your files include non-bootable ISOs, they will also
| show up in the boot menu. I haven't tried selecting one to
| see what happens.
| 77pt77 wrote:
| You can say that only a specific folder has ISOs.
|
| It's configurable via a simple json file.
| drewzero1 wrote:
| Good to know! I haven't looked into the configuration at
| all, just been using it as-installed since hearing about
| it a little over a year ago. (Thanks, Late Night Linux!)
| 77pt77 wrote:
| https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_imagelist.html
|
| Example config:
|
| { "image_list": [
| "/ISO/Linux/archlinux-2020.10.01-x86_64.iso", "/ISO/cn_wi
| ndows_10_enterprise_ltsc_2019_x64_dvd_9c09ff24.iso",
| "/ISO/Win10PE.iso" ] }
|
| or:
|
| https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_control.html
|
| And something like:
|
| { "VTOY_DEFAULT_SEARCH_ROOT": "/ISO" }
| girishso wrote:
| Is there any option to set a default ISO to boot? Without
| having to select a file manually. I keep juggling between
| different OSes on raspberry pies and it's a pain to reformat
| drive again and again. But sometimes i do want it to boot
| headless.
| c-hendricks wrote:
| See `VTOY_DEFAULT_IMAGE`, which also allows for some
| special values: https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_control.ht
| ml#vtoy_default_i...
| HankB99 wrote:
| You can also have it leave extra space at the end of the
| device. I create a new partition there and format it with ab
| EXT4 filesystem. At one time (I think) Windows could not deal
| with the extra partition but Linux does just fine.
| riskable wrote:
| You can put whatever you want on the VENTOY drive: I made one
| for a friend a that had Kubuntu and Tails ISOs along with Yuzu
| (Nintendo Switch emulator) and a bunch of Switch games.
|
| I didn't test Tails much (I was just trying to encourage
| learning linux through fun... _tools_ ) but I could boot into
| Kubuntu and play the included Switch games. It even worked with
| a cheap/generic Switch Pro-like controller without any extra
| setup required other than to tell Yuzu to use it.
|
| Essentially it was an instant boot-on-anything Nintendo Switch
| emulator thumb drive (it was one of the tinier varieties too).
| Tape that drive to the back of a $20 Switch Pro-like controller
| and it's a fantastic Christmas gift
| walteweiss wrote:
| Sounds really cool! Thanks for the idea!
| thaumaturgy wrote:
| I recently needed to install Linux onto two new systems, and the
| process has somehow gotten even more infuriating since I last
| purchased hardware about five years ago. Between Secure Boot,
| UEFI, the Windows Boot Loader, "self-healing BIOS" (aka, "huh,
| you tried to boot something other than Windows, lemme just revert
| all those BIOS settings for you..."), and either crippled or
| inscrutably complex BIOS, I was dead in the water with the
| install process for several hours on each device.
|
| Ventoy saved my bacon. _One_ of the problems I was encountering
| turned out to be that one of the BIOSes wasn 't recognizing the
| standard Debian ISO (any of them) as bootable, but it did
| recognize Ventoy. The other device ultimately refused to boot
| anything other than either Windows or Ubuntu (hard-locking on
| kernel load), but Ventoy at least made it easier to trial-and-
| error my way to that conclusion.
|
| I flatly refuse to purchase a mass-market computer ever again.
| Everything from this point forward is either going to be custom
| built or purchased from a vendor with explicit Linux support.
| vbezhenar wrote:
| That's surprising. I never experienced that. All I do is format
| USB stick with FAT32, copy files from ISO and it just works.
| thaumaturgy wrote:
| I invite you to give that a shot on either an LG 16Z90R or a
| Dell Inspiron 7710.
| tripflag wrote:
| while I don't have any of those machines readily available,
| i am curious if this USB image [1] would work. It's a
| lightly customized Alpine which can be written to a
| flashdrive using either Rufus, usbimager, or this command:
| xz -dkc <asm.usb.xz >/dev/sdi
|
| the image was built using this repo [2] and this command:
| ./build.sh -i dl/alpine-standard-3.19.0-x86_64.iso -p min
| -s 0.3
|
| [1] https://ocv.me/asm.usb.xz [2]
| https://github.com/9001/asm
| thaumaturgy wrote:
| Would've been happy to try this, but this device has
| already been shipped to the recipient. FWIW the consensus
| was that Secure Boot on the Inspiron was still
| _partially_ active, even after disabling it in BIOS. If
| this image is capable of running with Secure Boot
| enabled, then it should work. If it requires disabling
| Secure Boot, then it probably wouldn 't.
| tripflag wrote:
| In that case we probably have the answer already :) The
| next question then would have been whether secureboot-
| signing it yourself and replacing the PK/DB in the BIOS
| would have made it work, but it's really unfortunate that
| we've gotten to this point.
| thaumaturgy wrote:
| Yeah. I was genuinely surprised at how hostile the
| process has become. These were the most difficult
| installs I've ever had by far, and for entirely different
| reasons than in the past. Contrary to past installs, once
| I finally got the OS on there, everything else worked
| better than expected.
| Dalewyn wrote:
| >the Windows Boot Loader,
|
| Just FYI, Windows Boot Manager (and also its predecessor NTLDR)
| can chainload into any other bootloader including GRUB.
| Originally intended to support dualbooting Windows NT with
| Windows 9x, it's actually quite handy and reliable.
|
| >I flatly refuse to purchase a mass-market computer ever again.
|
| There's your problem. "Big box" store-bought computers have
| motherboards that are locked down and devoid of most advanced
| features.
| csdvrx wrote:
| I've seen old tutorial from the Windows 7 era, tried to do
| the same with Windows 11 but failed.
|
| Can you explain how to use Windows bootmgr to chainload a
| linux kernel store either in the EFI or the NTFS?
|
| The goal is to use the same menu that shows different Windows
| versions from different drives
| Perz1val wrote:
| Here we go again: Leave that damn windows bootloader alone.
| Create new partition for the new bootloader, set it as default
| boot partition. When booting choose "Windows boot mgr" in GRUB
| (may need to run osprober), it'll work fine. This way windows
| can keep it's bootloader healthy, and you can boot to both
| OSes.
| thaumaturgy wrote:
| Appreciate the advice, but I have no interest in booting
| Windows and would rather not keep its boot loader. On the
| exceedingly rare occasion that I need Windows for something,
| a VM is far more convenient than a reboot.
| ipdashc wrote:
| Hm, I'm confused- why you do not just wipe the Windows
| install entirely then?
| thaumaturgy wrote:
| I do, but that requires either successfully booting
| something else or pulling the drive. Manufacturers are
| making it incrementally harder to successfully boot
| something else. Pulling the drive is still an option, but
| it turned out that I didn't have the right NVME adapter
| and one wasn't available locally, and in any case, if you
| do that and still can't get it to boot, then you have to
| have a backup image of the drive or you're really SOL. If
| the device still boots Windows in any condition, I can
| still return it to the retailer as a plan Z.
| pyrophane wrote:
| This is a great tool for those of us who might have a bit of a
| distro hopping problem. You no longer need to do the whole song
| and dance with `dd` and can just copy a bunch of ISOs to a single
| USB drive
| Redster wrote:
| I recently started getting into Linux, I was able to load up
| four or five ISOs and cycle through them so painlessly. Very
| fun.
| lproven wrote:
| Fantastic tool. Works with Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, some forms of
| DOS -- most things.
|
| I wrote about it here:
| https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/10/friday_foss_fest/
|
| Now there's a PXE network-boot version too.
|
| https://www.iventoy.com/en/index.html
| chem83 wrote:
| Knew about http://netboot.xyz, but had no idea iVentoy existed.
| Good to know.
| gosub100 wrote:
| I've never tried ventoy, but if the PXE/netboot features work,
| I want to strongly urge anyone thinking of experimenting with
| PXE/netboot to _use ventoy_ or any other similar helper instead
| of trying to set up PXE /netboot yourself. I can confidently
| say that PXE was the single most difficult project/aspect of
| computing I've ever worked on in the 20 years of working with
| Linux machines as a hobby and a job. 3-4 times I attempted to
| mess with it, got it working about 2. Wasted/spent an
| absolutely enormous amount of time.
| yonatan8070 wrote:
| I tried iVnetoy on both Windows and Linux, on Windows I
| couldn't get it working (don't know why, maybe a firewall
| issue?), but on Linux it worked flawlessly, and the injection
| features are also great
| tripflag wrote:
| iPXE makes the client-side part of it manageable; the only
| drawback is having to walk through the open pull-requests on
| github for the patches you need to get it working, and
| possibly having to fight some buggy uefi drivers (usually
| solved with snponly). Also has the advantage of making it
| possible to do everything secureboot + over TLS with your own
| certificates, rather than classical PXE which is all
| plaintext.
|
| For the serverside, there are several python projects on
| github which provide everything you need in one package, for
| example pybootd.
| jandrese wrote:
| PXE is one of those things that used to be dead simple to set
| up. Just add an entry to the DHCP record and set up a TFTP
| server for the kernel and NFS root drive and you were golden.
|
| UEFI threw a huge moneywrench in the process, and SystemD
| doesn't help. Last time I made it work I had to track down a
| mailing list entry where someone discussed an otherwise
| undocumented kernel option that needed to be set to make it
| work. One of the key glue techs that made it work last time
| (rom-o-matic) went out of development and is gone.
| gertlex wrote:
| Just commenting an adjacent UEFI problem solved: My
| workaround at work with some old test robots that I still
| use, but don't have UEFI... Put iPXE on a flash drive, and
| use that to chain-boot into the uefi-only PXE setup.
| (there's still a few that this doesn't work for, but it's a
| minority and I'm going to scrap those...)
| gosub100 wrote:
| Either Dell or Lenovo (can't remember which, I own both
| laptops) has some new-generation HTTPS boot, tried it (I
| wanted to dual boot FreeBSD/Linux without messing with
| UEFI, disabling secure boot, or repartitioning, just
| pressing F12 and net-booting), wasted _another_ 2-3 hours
| rebooting each time, got absolutely nowhere again. Man,
| this stuff is cursed.
| StillBored wrote:
| That is still basically the process. You need to ensure
| that the arch options are being selected properly in your
| dhcp file, ex:
|
| if option arch = 00:07 { filename "uefi/shimx64.efi"; next-
| server X.X.X.X; } else ...
|
| Otherwise, your going to get the wrong arch/filename.
|
| It is similar to HTTPS, but the arch = 00:10 for x64 and it
| needs:
|
| option vendor-class-identifier "HTTPClient";
|
| Then put the URL in the filename field.
|
| Finally just put the usual bios/pxe stub in the last "else"
|
| Of course, your distro should provide a PXE capable
| grub/kernel/initrd, which you then toss on the TFTP/HTTPS
| (or HTTP then you don't have to deal with certs) server in
| the path provided.
| toast0 wrote:
| UEFI seems hard, because there's no standardized way to
| boot ISO files, and memdisk from syslinux doesn't work in
| UEFI. With memdisk, the OS kernel could (if properly
| written) hook into the loaded image, and mount that as
| well.
|
| Without that support, you have to take apart ISO files to
| netboot them, and your PXE environment needs to understand
| the various kernels and how to boot them, and how to
| provide modules / filesystem images.
|
| It's a big pain.
| gertlex wrote:
| You are not wrong.
|
| But I get a good bit of satisfaction of having gleaned a
| pretty functional understanding of setting up PXE/netboot
| (Ubuntu installs; with a Ubuntu PXE server via DNSMasq + nfs
| + tftp).
|
| I even did some grub menu user input (and ascii art while I
| was at it) prompts/trickery to allow choosing the machine
| name shortly after boot, before the long slow Ubuntu install.
|
| The list of things I've failed at (memtest) or not tried
| (Windows) is surely long, though.
|
| Ventoy is fantastic for any lower-volume imaging needs I
| have, of course.
| timetraveller26 wrote:
| This is the best tool I have used for my linux installs, it also
| is handy to have some recovery/maintenance ISO's quickly
| available.
|
| It works with BIOS and UEFI and even lets you keep using your usb
| for other files.
| keb_ wrote:
| Gonna echo everyone here and say this is a great tool, but I was
| sad to find out that it does not work with the Steam Deck
| Recovery image.
| pityJuke wrote:
| I know Ventoy has been around for a while, but I'm still glad we
| have a good FOSS solution for this. Back in the day, I used to
| run a proprietary (I think) tool called SARDU for the job, which
| worked fine, but wasn't terrific.
| popey wrote:
| It may have evolved since I last used it. But when I tried, it
| was a bit of a "bag of spanners", thrown together shell scripts
| which made some incorrect assumptions. Back then it didn't even
| make a bootable device. Everyone seems to rave about it now
| though, so may be worth another look.
| Perz1val wrote:
| I had an old version of ventoy and it worked flawlessly for a
| long time. Recently it had some problems with booting an
| EndeavourOS iso, I updated it and that fixed the issue.
| Updating was just downloading fresh installer and clicking a
| button. For me it has always been solid, the UX of just copying
| over the iso and still being able to store random crap is
| perfect.
| csdvrx wrote:
| Key limitation: can't be installed to run standalone (in a
| partition on your nvme boot drive) if you care about partitions
| alignment.
|
| Variants without this limitation were discussed yesterday.
|
| Usecase: a rescue distribution to start from the UEFI menu
| manually, or automatically if your normal boot fails
| walteweiss wrote:
| Why not dual boot any Linux for that? If you use Windows. Coz
| if it run Linux, you're fine, you can just load another kernel
| of your is happened to break after the update.
| csdvrx wrote:
| The goal is to have full ISOs, for Ubuntu, Windows 11 etc
| with the minimal number of partitions and files, for easy
| maintenance and imaging to other computers
|
| A few ISO + a UEFI entry to select them is much simpler: the
| ISO file will never change. It can not be rended unbootable
| by mistake
|
| I tried to explain that yesterday in a reply to
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38668260 and on
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38668809
| leeoniya wrote:
| the persistence feature is cool:
| https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_persistence.html
|
| especially if you want to customize or keep your bootable
| recovery disk usb updated without rolling your own ISOs.
| 77pt77 wrote:
| Unfortunately that works by creating a FS on a loop image file,
| you can't use the FS in the actual USB stick.
|
| It's still great, but if you run into space issues you'll have
| to extend the loop file.
| phyzome wrote:
| Fantastic tool.
|
| Having a single thumb drive with multiple ISOs on it means you
| don't have to keep juggling thumb drives ("now _where_ did I put
| my Debian 12 XFCE installer ") or overwriting them over and over
| ("oh no, this has the 64-bit ISO, but now I need the 32-bit
| installer").
| jtriangle wrote:
| I have an external nvme with many iso's running ventoy and it's
| become an absolute staple. I even engraved 'ventoy' on it with
| a hand engraver so there's never any doubt.
|
| Useful for more than installs too, I have live distros with
| things like memtest, gparted and clonezilla, which really
| simplifies little one-off fixes.
| stavros wrote:
| How does the external NVMe work? Is there a USB enclosure for
| it? How does it fare against a USB thumb drive?
| wtallis wrote:
| There are Thunderbolt based drive enclosures, but the
| reasonably priced ones are all based on one of a handful of
| USB to NVMe bridge chips. You usually get a 10Gbps link, so
| nowhere near the speed the NVMe drive inside is capable of,
| but about twice the performance of SATA-based USB drives or
| the fastest that use a USB-native SSD controller. Compared
| to a typical USB thumb drive, performance is night and day,
| especially for writes and random access.
| stavros wrote:
| Interesting, thank you, though I guess I'd have to go USB
| 3 or USB-C, as I don't have Thunderbolt.
| Modified3019 wrote:
| Nvme to usb enclosures can work great, but can also be
| dodgy to work with. I personally find SATA enclosures more
| reliable overall, as they are less demanding
|
| There are a few issues at play:
|
| 1. Power supply issues: the power demands of your mix of
| enclosure and drive may not be satisfied by your USB
| port(s), which can vary wildly in capability, and over
| time.
|
| 2. The controller within the enclosure can overheat under
| load. This seems to happen across many enclosures I've
| tried. Larger enclosures may allow for attaching a tiny
| heatsink.
|
| 3. NVMe drives may not gracefully handle sudden
| disconnections. USB connections are inherently unreliable
| interfaces prone to physical disruption and loss of power,
| which will multiply against any normally hidden non-
| resiliance in the nvme drive.
|
| If your drive decides to stop showing up, first try loading
| up the boot device selection screen in the UEFI, and then
| insert the drive. It may take several seconds to show up.
| If trying that a few times doesn't work, the drive may be
| stuck in some kind of bad state. You may be able to recover
| from this with the unfortunately poorly known power cycle
| technique https://dfarq.homeip.net/fix-dead-ssd/
|
| The technique summarized is:
|
| 1. Connect to power (not data) only. Alternatively letting
| the drive sit at bios setup screen also seems to work. Turn
| on the power and leave the power on for 30 minutes.
|
| 2. After 30 minutes, power down or pull the power cable.
|
| 3. Wait 30 seconds, then restore power.
|
| 4. Let the drive sit powered on for another 30 minutes.
|
| 5. Power down again, then wait 30 seconds.
|
| Always set up automatic backups if you actually have non-
| replaceable data on the drive. They can and will just
| suddenly die forever with loss of all data, just like thumb
| drives. _You have been warned._
|
| All that said, there are generally less issues if you are
| simply putting ventoy on it to just install an OS from an
| iso.
|
| I have a dual raid1 sata enclosure that I use to boot a
| windows to go install created with Rufus
| (https://github.com/pbatard/rufus), which makes testing and
| benchmarking so much nicer to deal with. I've even stuck
| games on it, and other than relative filesystem slowness it
| works pretty great, once I added a heatsink to the
| enclosure controller.
| CapstanRoller wrote:
| Something like this tool-less Sabrent NVMe enclosure ($30
| https://a.co/d/2JOZsHn) paired with an inexpensive M.2 SSD.
|
| Not sure how gracefully the enclosure downgrades to USB 2.0
| speeds, but it's very handy and very fast.
|
| The SSD doesn't need to be fancy. It's overall bigger than
| a typical thumb drive, but much more reliable and the SSD
| can be easily swapped out. The detachable USB C cable on
| the enclosure is also very convenient.
| RunSet wrote:
| I only recently learned that Ventoy can also boot from
| Virtualbox VHD files and run them "on the metal".
|
| https://forums.ventoy.net/archive/index.php?thread-416.html
| aspenmayer wrote:
| Now that's awesome. Thanks for that, I was not aware of this
| feature.
| pxeboot wrote:
| Microsoft has supported "Native VHD Boot" since at least
| Windows 7 [1], but it is cool this project can configure it
| automatically.
|
| [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-
| us/virtualization/community/t...
| sys_64738 wrote:
| It's one of those tools that you don't know exists and then you
| wonder how you did without. The ingenuity of FLOSS developers
| never ceases to amaze me.
| WallyFunk wrote:
| I have the Gandalf rescue ISO[0] on this, among many other ISOs I
| use incase I need to repair/rescue or install stuff. My Ventoy
| setup is a veritable 'Swiss army knife' for general IT related
| things. The Gandalf Windows preinstalled environment has all this
| bundled with it, if anyone's interested:
| Tools/Utilities included on this Windows PE: AoMei
| Partition Assistant: Partitioning solution WinRAR:
| Powerful archiver and archive manager 7-Zip: Archiver and
| archive manager Defraggler: Disk Defragmenter MS
| Paint and Wordpad: Microsoft's basic image and text editors
| Macrium Reflect: Backup and disk imaging solution
| CCleaner: System optimization, privacy and cleaning tool
| Media Player Classic: Classic Windows media player
| HWiNFO: Hardware information and diagnostic tool Snipping
| Tool: Screen capture application. Windows Defender:
| Microsoft's excellent antivirus app TeamViewer: Remote
| control solution Double Drive: Driver backup application
| Winmerge: File comparison tool Opera: Web Browser, Fast,
| simple and safe way to get around on the web GetRight:
| Download manager Ntpwedit: Change or remove passwords for
| local system accounts Partition Wizard Virtual
| Keyboard Virtual Magnifying Glass DiskCryptor:
| Disk encryption application similar to Bitlocker
| Bitlocker: Microsoft's disk encryption application
| Powershell: Powerful automation tool is both a shell and a
| scripting language UltraISO: Directly edit ISO files,
| make images from CD/DVD-ROM Unlocker: Unlocker helps
| delete locked files with error messages Gimagex: A
| graphical user interface for the ImageX tool
| SuperAntiSpyWare: Free Malware Remover Magic Jelly Bean
| Key Finder: A utility that retrieves your Product Keys
| HiJackThis: Spot home page hijackers and startup programs
| Ghost: The classic imaging tool Skype: Provides video
| chat and voice calls VNC Viewer: Remote Control Software
| Sysinternal Suite Troubleshooting Utilities VLC Media
| Player: Open-source cross-platform multimedia player
| IrfanView Image Viewer FastStone Image Viewer: User-
| friendly image browser, converter and editor Mozilla
| FireFox: Another great browser Easy BCD: Boot management
| tool and bcd editor Snipping Tool: Take snapshots
| Drive Snapshot: Disk imaging solution MyLan Viewer:
| Network/IP Scanner Rufus: Utility to format and create
| bootable USB flash drives Wise Data Recovery: Recovery
| program to get back deleted photos, documents, etc.
| WinToolkit: Customize Your Windows Installation ImgBurn:
| CD burning tool Treesize: Quickly Scan Directory Sizes
| and Find Space Hogs Klite Codec Pack Basic
| RecoverKeys: Retrieves your Product Keys Remote Desktop:
| Latest version of Windows remote desktop DismGui: Dism
| with a graphical interface Klite Codec Pack Basic
| Google Chrome: Great Browser Powershell: Automation
| scripting
|
| [0] https://www.fcportables.com/gandalf-boot-iso/
| kup0 wrote:
| This is what I use most often these days for loading any system
| with a Linux install (or to test drive distros it's an awesome
| tool).
|
| I have found some hardware seems to have weird issues with drives
| of a certain size (I tried using a 256GB external SSD and have
| encountered a laptop that will not boot from it, and will only
| boot from USB storage if it's like 32GB or lower or something
| weird like that). But that appears to be a particular quirk of
| that laptop and nothing to do with Ventoy in particular.
| b8 wrote:
| Very useful and neat. Beats using Rufus to image something.
| golergka wrote:
| Never heard of it before. Don't really have a use for it. But
| still love the fact that HN frontpage brings these kinds of
| projects up sometimes.
| DrNosferatu wrote:
| What about FreeDOS?
|
| FreeDOS with SBEmu is really nice for an instant DOS machine on
| real hardware:
|
| https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU/releases
| tarruda wrote:
| I'm blown away by how easy this makes having a boot drive for
| multiple operating systems while also letting the thumb drive
| work normally as a data storage medium
| jakebasile wrote:
| Echoing the praise here. I just install this on all the USB
| storage devices I have. If I have ISOs on it, now I can boot.
| Otherwise I can use them as regular USB storage.
| plagiat0r wrote:
| There are hardware disk enclosures that emulate an optical drive
| over USB and booting works on hardware level with "physical"
| optical drive.
|
| But how ventoy achieve systems booting and detecting the iso
| programmatically? I know that initially, there seems to be grub2
| reading usb file list and then it reads iso eltorito boot image
| and boots from it, but how exactly the OS itself know about the
| virtual drive? Is there an interface in uefi or bios that allow
| emulate optical drive, or some other standard is at play and
| operating systems just happens to support it? Window 10/11 pe /
| installer, for example, reports the iso in diskpart as virtual
| disk. Not an optical drive. Windows kernel actually mounts the
| iso somehow automatically.
|
| Can someone point me on how this actually works, please.
| dist-epoch wrote:
| I don't know the answer, but it's not required to emulate an
| optical drive.
|
| Modern UEFI BIOSes can natively boot from USB sticks, they can
| save settings and screenshots to the USB stick (thus they are
| not mounted read-only).
| notimpotent wrote:
| I've used similar tools like imageUSB and Rufus in the past. But
| it looks like Ventoy is better in every aspect. Excellent!
| latchkey wrote:
| Discussions on similar submissions:
|
| _A New Bootable USB Solution_
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28889392 (October 16, 2021
| -- 182 points, 47 comments)
|
| _Ventoy makes making bootable USB drives easy_
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24273289 (August 25, 2020 --
| 66 points, 11 comments)
|
| _Ventoy: A new bootable USB solution_
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24241485 (August 21, 2020 --
| 394 points, 106 comments)
|
| _Ventoy - A New Bootable USB Solution_
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23394714 (June 2, 2020 -- 70
| points, 6 comments)
| proxysna wrote:
| Love the tool, been using it for a long time. But one thing that
| it can't do is illumos based iso's.
| mmgutz wrote:
| Another plus is Ventoy can install Windows 11 without secure
| boot, TPM from an official MS ISO. Some Linux distros cannot
| install with those features enabled.
| breakds wrote:
| The only thing that I carry all day besides my laptop is a flash
| disk with ventoy in it.
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