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    Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files

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    285 points wilsonfiifi | 11 comments | 30 Oct 25 14:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.756s | source | bottom
    1. fullstop ◴[30 Oct 25 14:59 UTC] No.45760780[source]▶
    I really like the idea of this, but I've run into several installers which are just incompatible with it. I don't remember which ones, unfortunately, but they just didn't deal with it well.
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    2. finalarbiter ◴[30 Oct 25 15:02 UTC] No.45760813[source]▶
    Agreed. I have also found that some (dirt cheap) USB drives are incompatible with Ventoy entirely, being that it does not format the drive properly. I can drop ISOs all I like, but if they don't boot once I select them... Unfortunately I have resorted to using my trusty "pile o' flash drives" I've had for a decade.
    3. mhurron ◴[30 Oct 25 15:04 UTC] No.45760837[source]▶
    Ventoy basically breaks openSUSE ISO's. Just mentioning that so maybe it'll show up more in searches.
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    4. WaxProlix ◴[30 Oct 25 15:05 UTC] No.45760852[source]▶
    If you have secureboot enabled and in Windows friendly mode, you can get validation failures with Ventoy until you either turn off secureboot, register the Ventoy MOK key, or change your secureboot setting to Generic OS (or whatever).

    Kind of a pain, I think any machine that's had windows on it will get this setting enabled.

    5. Liquix ◴[30 Oct 25 15:05 UTC] No.45760858[source]▶
    IME this can sometimes be resolved by selecting 'use grub2 mode' instead of allowing the ISO to boot normally.
    6. rombert ◴[30 Oct 25 15:12 UTC] No.45760922[source]▶
    Adding an official source: https://fosstodon.org/@opensuse/115451506225628859
    7. starky ◴[30 Oct 25 15:18 UTC] No.45760990[source]▶
    Agreed, I've run into just enough installers that don't work with Ventoy where I've just defaulted back to using etcher when I need access. The 5 minutes wait is worth it over the frustration of booting into Ventoy and finding it doesn't work with the ISO I'm trying to use.
    8. mbirth ◴[30 Oct 25 15:18 UTC] No.45761006[source]▶
    It’s mostly obscure ISOs for e.g. ReactOS and KolibriOS that don’t work for me. But normal Linux- or Windows-based ISOs all boot fine.
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    9. fullstop ◴[30 Oct 25 15:22 UTC] No.45761054[source]▶
    I wish that I could remember which Linux distribution that balked at it. It wasn't an obscure one, though.
    10. zettabomb ◴[30 Oct 25 16:03 UTC] No.45761536[source]▶
    First I've heard of it, I just installed an openSUSE variant through Ventoy a week or so ago.
    11. dspillett ◴[30 Oct 25 16:05 UTC] No.45761551[source]▶
    I've seen an installer get confused by the presence of an EFI partition on the stick, and not correctly create one on the target drive. There are probably ways to get around that, but I just made a separate USB stick for the installer (I had a spare stick floating around, and the tools handy (including on at least one of the live CDs on the ventoy stick)) and retried that way, which was probably faster than researching another method.