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Ventoy – A New Bootable USB Solution

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Where has this been all my life! I have something in the same spirit using GRUB, but it isn't remotely as versatile as this claims to be. You run into all sorts of funny issues, like UEFI GRUB not being able to run some boot loader, or like GRUB refusing to read your disk because you loaded a module that didn't match your disk or controller, or numerous other issues. If this works as advertised, it's amazing.

Yeah, great idea, but it doesn't work at all. Probably just early days.

Just tried it with Win10 and current Debian ISOs. Ventoy menu comes up showing both ISOs, but both fail to boot the same way with cryptic and meaningless error messages. Impossible to copy the very wordy messages; may have to get out the phone and grab an image.

Nothing in the FAQ or forums about the error. Thought it was a secure boot issue, but same thing happens with secure boot turned off.

The documentation is, as with almost every project this century, hopelessly inadequate, so there is not much help available. Guess I'm supposed to read the source code, which I will do, eventually.

EDIT: tried it on two different UEFI laptops: a MacBook Air and a Lenovo core i7. Same problem on both. Haven't tried it with legacy BIOS yet.

Wow that's disappointing. It seems really bizarre for them to claim it's tested to work if it doesn't work. Wonder what the issue might be...

The QQ group is interesting. I attempted to use QQ recently but was banned everytime. My use was legitimate I needed help from a Chinese engineer to support an industrial automation line he built but couldn't install due to Covid. I assumed that I wasn't supposed to use QQ outside of China. Seeing it here makes me question that. It may have been that the engineer I was contacting was in the middle of Wuhan.

This is typically the type of good and simple idea that makes me thing "But why we didn't think about this before".

It's a really great idea to store ISO images and boot them at any time.

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