Questions tagged [ventoy]
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Crucial X6 or X8 SSD reserved partition, what is the purpose?
I recently bought a 1TB Crucial X6 USB portable SSD. I wonder if it is safe to delete the reserved partition of of 128MB (MiB, binary MB). I'm worried that it is reserved as spare sectors/blocks to replace any bad blocks that develop over time, and…
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Is it safe to boot a firmware upgrade ISO image with Ventoy
Lenovo distributes its firmware and BIOS upgrade through Windows EXE files or bootable CD ISO files. Apparently the ISO files are not hybrid ones that can boot from USB flash drive, an actual CD is needed.
I use Linux, and I don't have a USB CD…
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Is possible update ventoy through Linux when it was installed from the beginning through Windows 10?
To load an .iso image through the boot process through a pendrive (or usb flash drive) is very useful Ventoy
I want to know if is possible, and mostly safe, accomplish the following scenario
Is possible update ventoy through Linux when it was…
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How to install GRUB into VDI booted using Ventoy?
I have an Ubuntu Server 22.04 install running from a VDI image booted using Ventoy which I'm trying to apt-get upgrade.
When it comes to reinstalling GRUB, I get the following message:
The GRUB boot loader was previously installed to a disk that
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Ansel Pol
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Boot ISO from SMB mount via grub or similar via USB flash drive
I am looking for a way to mount ISO files that are on an SMB share. Unfortuantely I do not have any other way to access them. Is there a way with insmod to let grub load from an SMB share or is there any other way to boot from an SMB share with no…
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Getting Ventoy v1.0.99 to work with secure boot turned on
I am trying to create a dual boot Live USB of Ubuntu 22.04.4LTS and Windows 10, using Ventoy v1.0.99
When I first created the Ventoy Live USB, I was getting "Verification failed: (0x1A) Security Violation Error" when booting it, despite each of the…
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Debian 12 fails to install over Ventoy 97?
I have installed latest ventoy-1.0.97-livecd.iso on my disk, and have put debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso in it, and after selecting locale and layout, it complains it can not détect installation media.
Old Ventoy around 63 used to be able to boot…
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My Dell OptiPlex 990 boot is very slow and I don’t know why
I have a Dell OptiPlex 990 with good specs like an SSD, i5 2500, and 8GB RAM.
The system is extremely slow when booting from a Ventoy USB flash drive to install Windows or Linux, hanging for a few minutes before the installation starts; afterwards,…
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Where is installed ventoy on the USB flash drive?
Since months ago through Windows 10 I have installed ventoy on a USB flash drive to storage and boot some .iso files for installation purposes about Linux in other laptops. It works fine as expected. Even more, ventoy was upgraded few times in peace…
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I can not boot my LiveCD OS with Ventoy
I made a bootable USB stick with Ventoy tool. My USB stick is a Kingston 256GB usb-c DataTraveler Max. I created an about 38GB Partition for Ventoy tool. The remaining space I use for a separated fat32 data partition. I copied Ubuntu, Debian and…
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How to put Windows 10 on a thumb drive with Ventoy to install?
As suggested, I've downloaded Ventoy and did run the shell script. It's not clear to me what "install ventoy" does, but I did install it to a USB stick. How would I then get Windows 10 onto the thumb drive itself?
This is from Linux.
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