I've set up a Ventoy USB with 3 extra partitions. Everything works great and I have several iso's installed in Ventoy's main partition.

I installed a Linux distro in the 3 extra partitions. The partition layout is /dev/sdd3 is an extended partition containing sda5, sda6, sda7, to get around a 4 partition limit using an MBR. The partitions are mounted as follows, /dev/sda4 is not setup,  /dev/sda5 is root, /dev/sda6 is swap, and /dev/sda7 is home.

I can chroot into the Linux install, and boot it from SystemRescue's iso grub menu option findroot.

However, when booting into it using SystemRescue, it uses SystemRescue's kernel rather than the Arch kernel in the install.

I've looked into a way to manually configure Ventoy's grub, but cannot even find a conventional grub.cfg file.

Is it possible what I'm trying to do, boot a Linux distro installed on the same USB as Ventoy?

If not, I may try to manually setup a grub boot USB to boot multi iso's, and have Ventoy installed within it. However this option would be much more work than leveraging Ventoy's boot loader.



EDIT 1

Ok, just figured out the grub.cfg file is on the 2nd Ventoy partition. I mounted it and am currently exploring...

EDIT 2

Added a menu entry to grub.cfg and it shows up on starting Ventoy. Now if I can figure out how get Ventoy to mount the partitions, should be no problem to have grub boot it.

Problem is, Ventoy is booting (one of several?) images, so extracting, editing and re-compressing is a bit of work. I'm sure there would be an easier way to implement this without editing one of the OS images, but I just don't yet know how all these external files work.

How can we Use Ventoy in Linux

[b]Hi AlexBryansk, When do you have ventoy mod 1.0.89? Please share with me, thank you very much.[/b]

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How can I define a separate font for each theme? Is this possible?

thanks for ur help

The dev of Easy Barry Kauler recently tried to work with Easy and Ventoy to see if he could figure out the incompatibility, but he couldn't.



https://bkhome.org/news/202303/ventoy-do...asyos.html Ventoy does not work with EasyOS --March 11, 2023 — BarryK




https://bkhome.org/news/tag_easy.html  EasyOS 4.5.5 does not work with Ventoy either -- March 11, 2023 — BarryK




I like using Ventoy to boot linux distro/s live, and I've posted here in the past about getting earlier Easy to work w/ Ventoy which was once possible by increasing the size of the Easy .img file using truncate.

According to the official documentation, the gfxmode variable in grub2 can:
"The resolution may be specified as a sequence of one or more modes, separated by commas (‘,’) or semicolons (‘;’); each will be tried in turn until one is found. Each mode should be either ‘auto’, ‘widthxheight’, or ‘widthxheightxdepth’."
In ventory, this works fine if in the file ventoy.json manually write, for example:

Which ISO files you have inside Ventoy USB?

Let me tell you mines with their reasons:

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- gparted-live-os - in offline environment you will need gparted GUI which is not pre-installed inside other ISO files of mine Ventoy USB.

- fedora - my daily OS

- ventoy-live - in case install ventoy to other USB's on-the-fly.

- mx linux - it has proprietary apps (like VLC...). in case any offline environment...

- ubuntu - ubuntu's market share is big. in case any app has only support on ubuntu.

- windows 11 and 10

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What do you suggest me more? In any case...

Hi,
I'm experiencing some issues booting Ventoy menu on some PC with UEFI boot. In place of the menu, it appears the error you can see in the picture below.
If I disable UEFI and enable Legacy, Ventoy menu boots correctly.

I tried installing Ventoy both with MBR and GPT and with all file system configurations.
I tried Ventoy on about ten pc and this error occurred on about half of it.

What could it be the reason?

after updating my ventoy to 1.0.89, my themes dont work again

EDIT: fix already

Hello,
I created a .vhd with Virtualbox (200GB fixed size), installed linux mint on it and vtoyboot, and now I want to boot it from local file. I set up a 16GB USB drive with Ventoy and put the .vlnk.vhd in there but when I boot into Ventoy it gives me a "no iso file found" error. I also tried F2 and browsing to the .vhd file but it doesnt come up.
I also tried booting the linux mint iso file following the same procedure, and it worked, so I guess there must be something wrong with the .vhd file?
Does anyone have a clue on how I can get it working?