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Its posible to boot a partition whit linux on it from a ventoy disk instead of booting it from vdisk?
Possible.
Something similar with F4 localboot.
(10-26-2021, 02:51 PM)longpanda Wrote: [ -> ]Possible.
Something similar with F4 localboot.
 Yes I know that posibility but thats is if the instalation is on a local disk not on the ventoy disk itself, y have a 500gb ssd usb disk and i would like to have vetoy whit some isos on the disk , and a partirion whit linux intaled on it too. any way to do it or could be added on future releases?
F4 localboot is just search the bootloader and boot it.
It doesn't matter the bootloader is on local HDD or in Ventoy USB.
You can install Linux into Ventoy USB's partition 3 for example.
And boot this linux by Ventoy.
(10-27-2021, 12:12 PM)longpanda Wrote: [ -> ]F4 localboot is just search the bootloader and boot it.
It doesn't matter the bootloader is on local HDD or in Ventoy USB.
You can install Linux into Ventoy USB's partition 3 for example.
And boot this linux by Ventoy.
Thanks , I would be nice if ventoy detected automatically and add it to the principal menu but thay should work for now.
(10-27-2021, 12:12 PM)longpanda Wrote: [ -> ]F4 localboot is just search the bootloader and boot it.
It doesn't matter the bootloader is on local HDD or in Ventoy USB.
You can install Linux into Ventoy USB's partition 3 for example.
And boot this linux by Ventoy.
F4 dosent work the way expected becouse in a machine whit a internal disk its going to try booting the interna "local"l hard disk instead the USB one whit the 3 partition so  no luke : (
(10-28-2021, 10:26 PM)CapitanX Wrote: [ -> ]
(10-27-2021, 12:12 PM)longpanda Wrote: [ -> ]F4 localboot is just search the bootloader and boot it.
It doesn't matter the bootloader is on local HDD or in Ventoy USB.
You can install Linux into Ventoy USB's partition 3 for example.
And boot this linux by Ventoy.
F4 dosent work the way expected becouse in a machine whit a internal disk its going to try booting the interna "local"l hard disk instead the USB one whit the 3 partition so  no luke : (

You can write your custom grub menu and load by F6.
In the custom grub menu you can boot your linux distro as you want.
https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_grubmenu.html


Or if you use UEFI mode you can download a rEFInd.iso and put it to Ventoy USB and boot the ISO. After that you can use rEFInd to find your linux distro and boot.
https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/

SuperGrub2 is another similar super bootloader.
https://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/