My day job is BIOS engineer working in UEFI and have just started using Ventoy as my main usb stick for personal use.

I've been thinking about using Ventoy in my Day job...

Is the source for Ventoy available somewhere?

Specifically; I'd like to be able to run Ventoy from the UEFI shell and pass it a --text parameter on the commandline. This should cause Ventoy to run as a EFI application and print a list of selections (ISOs) in table form to the console.

Think of this as a crude text launcher for ISOs. 

I'd use this in place of the graphical gui since most of my work is done remotely over a usb serial port in the shell. These systems are "headless" and don't have a usb keyboard/mouse/monitor attached. All work is done on these systems via the serial port (TeraTerm).

Could Ventoy.json be used to force Text mode?

Found on Distrowatch, here. 

And, Forum discussion here.

Thanks in advance

Hello,
Tried to compile Ventoy 1.32 from source.
Grub Core.img is coming out at 0kb.
I am getting this error when compiling Grub separately.
Compiles fine on 1.31 source.  Compiled using Longpanda's guide on Github.
Likely an error on my part as I am new to compiling.

ventoy/ventoy.c:49:19: fatal error: miniz.h: No such file or directory
#include "miniz.h"
                  ^
compilation terminated.
make[3]: *** [ventoy/ventoy_module-ventoy.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/Ventoy-master/GRUB2/SRC/grub-2.04/grub-core'
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Ventoy-master/GRUB2/SRC/grub-2.04/grub-core'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Ventoy-master/GRUB2/SRC/grub-2.04'
make: *** [install] Error 2
grub-mkimage: error: cannot open `/home/Ventoy-master/GRUB2/SRC/grub-2.04/../../../GRUB2/INSTALL/lib/grub/i386-efi/moddep.lst': No such file or directory.
grub-mknetdir: error: cannot open `/home/Ventoy-master/GRUB2/INSTALL/lib/grub/i386-efi/moddep.lst': No such file or directory.

I am able to get Mint 20, CAINE 11, Systemrescue 4.9.2 and Foxclone 42 to boot in UEFI mode but HBCD_PE_x64 and tails-amd64-4.14 will only boot in Legacy Bios mode. Is there a way of getting them to work in UEFI as on other threads people have reported they do work in UEFI

经过多台计算机测试，操作系统分别是Windows10 2004 专业工作站版和专业版，ext2fsd会导致ventoy无法识别到U盘，需要手动关闭

Hi. I have seen that the iso of wifislax64 2.1 is compatible with ventoy. However when starting the iso it does not work for me. Attached image of the error that gives me. I don't know if I have to do some kind of thing. Can you help me? Thank you

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看到ventoy帮助手册里说，可以支持数据持久化。
请问有经验的朋友，ventoy的数据持久化，对应debian/ubuntu/deepin系统来说，使用apt update进行更新，或者apt install安装的软件是否会保存下来呢？
进行语言设置和输入法设置，是否会保存下来呢？

通过virtualbox安装的xubuntu20.04，安装的时候选择的是efi模式，安装后安装ventoy说明，复制到ventoy分区后，只能以efi模式启动ventoy，才能正常启动。

有没有办法，使安装的xubuntu的vdi文件，既支持legcy模式，又支持efi模式呢？

I've searched the board and tried all the options I could find. I tried F1 option as well as another one but I can't get this to work. Gandalf Redstone 5 and Redstone 6 will not load through Ventoy. Has anyone found a way to fix this or should I just move to a different PE and forget about Gandalf? I don't want to have to change the extension, then boot, then change the extension back each time I have to use it. What are my other options?

I need to install Windows10 to a USB device so I may update my BIOS. (I also have an external HDD to try but I've heard it doesn't work when you try it)

I don't have any current Windows installs on HDD or SSD to run the BIOS update from, and my internal HDD doesn't work anymore, just throws up I/O errors. I've tried swapping HDDs but they all fail with I/O errors, too.

I tried (without Ventoy) to use both Win7 and Vista official install media but it would not allow me to install to a USB device. I don't understand why Microsoft has to be so retarded with this.

I cannot perform the BIOS update from my Linux installs, my system is unsupported for this. Nor am I going to try booting from FreeDOS which is suggested on some websites as a possible alternative for a BIOS update.

The only workaround I've tried is booting a Windows Vista 32 bit installation CD (not with Ventoy) and going into repair mode and getting access to a terminal prompt. From there, I received an error message, "oledlg.dll not found" when I typed in the name of the BIOS updater program and pressed Enter. Trying this with 64bit media such as Vista/7 throws up the following error, "The subsystem needed to support the image type is not present." But at least I see a quick extraction animation when I use 32 bit media, prior to the dll not found message.

My BIOS is very limited and does not offer a boot to BIOS update section like some motherboards do, so I'm screwed there. It is legacy bios from several years ago, prior to the UEFI.

I have separate rescue media DVDs but they will not install to a HDD which does not work. I haven't tried running the 1st recovery media to try and install to USB, I imagine that it won't.

So, my only option, I suppose, is trying to install Win10 to USB or external HDD using Ventoy. The only reason I haven't tried it yet is because I wanted feedback from the community prior to downloading several gigs of data.

Any advice?