#Multiboot ventoy install#
#Multiboot ventoy update#
#Multiboot ventoy iso#

#Multiboot ventoy iso#

It says there’s no need to do that for new distribution releases, but since every ISO is different and they list ISO sizes on their compatibility list, I’d say they are running a dual approach – use a known-good configuration for specific releases, and run unknown releases with a best-guess configuration based on the boot structure of the ISO itself. It is upgradable without data loss on the main partition.

All configuration data is hidden on the small UEFI partition and the thing creates a boot menu on the fly that covers all files. After that, one does simply place entire ISO files on the data partition (subfolders are possible) and the thing is ready to go. The latter can also be of NTFS, ext2/3/4, FAT, XFS or UFS type with their respective restrictions and advantages. It creates two partitions on the USB drive, one 32MiB UEFI FAT32 partition on the very end of the drive, and one exFAT partition that covers the rest. Ventoy requires installation first (Windows/Linux – likely OSX will work with the Linux installer) and will wipe the disk once. How does it work? Honestly, I do not know in detail. Others like Solaris (for development use only, of course!) still require physical media or at least one USB drive for themselves. Luckily some have improved over time so that the current versions are indeed bootable without extraction and other wizardry. Quite a lot run out of the box, some have minor glitches, some have major glitches, and also quite a lot do not boot at all. Well, mostly, I didn’t run shady imagesīut there were 160 different ISOs, because I tested all the old versions and also downloaded the most recent ones during the tests. While I did nothing to make this happen, I heard about it in some multiboot forum thread and decided to test it and report the results to the developer(s). It’s now archived here mostly for GRUB config reference.Īnd the reason for finally abandoning it is Ventoy.

#Multiboot ventoy update#

As I’m the only user and there’s not that much demand for running different Linuxes at the moment, that script is badly maintained and only got an update when like a new Ubuntu LTS hit the market.

#Multiboot ventoy install#

It’s capable of running ISO files directly from the USB drive and also the option for a separate partition for some Windows WIM extraction, in order to offer bootable Windows install media. Speaking of the GitHubs on the Interwebs: I’ve been using a somewhat selfmade bash script to make bootable USB media for quite some time now.

Add automated or unattended install configuration.By Bzzz In project clonzezilla debian gparted grub iso linux mint manjaro multiboot solaris ubcd ubuntu usb ventoy USB ISO multiboot script – Ventoy (#P26).

It also comes with a plugin option, ventoy plugin allows you to : Also there is live boot version of ventoy creator available, this helps you to create bootable usb without live linux.

Ventoy USB creator is available for windows and linux systems.

Complete list of tested image acan be found in Its also compatible with most of the modern and legacy OS images. Ventoy currently supports following platforms: x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI . Since Ventoy automatically mount these images as virtual hardware no need to worry about creating a bootable usb anymore. Simply select the OS image and continue with your installation process. Now you can all your boot images to second partition ( by default labeled as VENTOY).ĭuring boot ventoy automatically adds all supported images from second partition to boot selection menu. Ventoy simply creates a partition and creates its boot binaries to that partition.

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive and supports ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. so each time you want add image to the usb need a computer with usb boot disk creation tool.īut ventoy helps to over come this problem, With ventoy you create a botable USB once and you can use it for any OS images without reformatting your USB. But majority of them need extracts the contents of the boot image and copies into usb drive. I have been looking for a simple multiboot usb creator tools. #AUTO Install, #EFI, #GPT, #IMG, #ISO, #kickstart, #Linux, #MBR, #Multiboot, #Secure Boot, #unattended install., #USB Boot, #VHD, #VHDX, #Wim, #Windows