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Unable to use Ventoy EFI files on my own partition - parkerlreed - 09-22-2020

I created a Ventoy USB stick and it worked great.

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I wanted to replicate the setup on my pre-existing portable USB drive and am hitting a weird issue.

EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi I copied to the EFI/BOOT/ folder

grub, tool and ventoy folders from the root of ESP I copied as well.

When I load bootx64.efi it ignores the grub.cfg and drops straight to grub console

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Then when I load the cfg manually, the screen resizes like I would expect from ventoy, but it doesn't render the UI correctly at all.

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It does this both in Virtualbox and real hardware.

Is there any way to get this working for a pre-existing EFI folder?

RE: Unable to use Ventoy EFI files on my own partition - Steve2926 - 09-22-2020

https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_disk_layout_gpt.html

You need to describe the disk partition layout.

RE: Unable to use Ventoy EFI files on my own partition - parkerlreed - 09-23-2020

EFI + MS Reserved + Windows NTFS + Linux + Hybrid MBR Grub. 

For the current testing I am just booting solely EFI

Code:
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sdc: 937703088 sectors, 447.1 GiB
Model: PNY ELITE PSSD 
Sector size (logical/physical): 512/512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): DB510777-3A28-41BB-A25B-4BC1BC276E15
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 937703054
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 3693 sectors (1.8 MiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048          206847   100.0 MiB   EF00  VTOYEFI
   2          206848          239615   16.0 MiB    0C01  Microsoft reserved ...
   3          239616       517144575   246.5 GiB   0700  Basic data partition
   4       517144576       937699327   200.5 GiB   8300 
   5       937699328       937701375   1024.0 KiB  EF02


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RE: Unable to use Ventoy EFI files on my own partition - longpanda - 09-23-2020

Necessary conditions for Ventoy to work:
1. There must be partition 1 and partition 2
2. ISO/WIM/VHD/IMG/EFI files must in partition1
3. Partition1's filesystem must FAT/exFAT/NTFS/UFS/XFS/Ext234
4. Partition1's cluster size must >= 2048
5. Partition2 must in FAT file system and hold all the Ventoy's directories and files as installed with Ventoy2Disk

RE: Unable to use Ventoy EFI files on my own partition - parkerlreed - 09-23-2020

At that point is that not just arbitrary? 

What reason other than Windows reading the volume is there for the storage to be first? GRUB itself doesn't care. I never plan to access the storage on Windows. Why is the storage as first partition a forced requirement?

RE: Unable to use Ventoy EFI files on my own partition - GCMartin - 09-23-2020

(09-23-2020, 06:36 PM)parkerlreed Wrote: ... Why is the storage as first partition a forced requirement?
Could it be the developer's preference for how he sees it to benefit use?

If you built a car, might you build with how you wanted it to operate?

Just some thoughts that might help.

RE: Unable to use Ventoy EFI files on my own partition - parkerlreed - 09-23-2020

Ok so I reordered the partitions and it got far enough to actually show me the error message.

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Renumbered so the EFI is second and the EXT4 is first

fdisk output

Code:
Disk /dev/sda: 447.13 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors
Disk model: PNY ELITE PSSD 
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 33553920 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: DB510777-3A28-41BB-A25B-4BC1BC276E15

Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1  517144576 937699327 420554752 200.5G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda2       2048    206847    204800   100M EFI System
/dev/sda3     206848    239615     32768    16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4     239616 517144575 516904960 246.5G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5  937699328 937701375      2048     1M BIOS boot

This allowed Ventoy to show me the message. I assume this is what it was trying to tell me before but was corrupted.

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The EXT4 partition appears to be > 2048 on the cluster size. I guess in the end, does Ventoy need the partitions physically arranged storage before EFI or should the partition numbering work?

Code:
tune2fs 1.45.6 (20-Mar-2020)
Filesystem volume name:   <none>
Last mounted on:          /run/media/parker/99612787-a9d4-4b07-a776-e40c4ffeb058
Filesystem UUID:          99612787-a9d4-4b07-a776-e40c4ffeb058
Filesystem magic number:  0xEF53
Filesystem revision #:    1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features:      has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file dir_nlink extra_isize metadata_csum
Filesystem flags:         signed_directory_hash
Default mount options:    user_xattr acl
Filesystem state:         clean
Errors behavior:          Continue
Filesystem OS type:       Linux
Inode count:              13148160
Block count:              52569344
Reserved block count:     2628466
Free blocks:              48198415
Free inodes:              12970763
First block:              0
Block size:               4096
Fragment size:            4096
Reserved GDT blocks:      1011
Blocks per group:         32768
Fragments per group:      32768
Inodes per group:         8192
Inode blocks per group:   512
RAID stripe width:        8191
Flex block group size:    16
Filesystem created:       Sun Sep 20 02:54:56 2020
Last mount time:          Tue Sep 22 20:22:04 2020
Last write time:          Tue Sep 22 20:23:53 2020
Mount count:              10
Maximum mount count:      -1
Last checked:             Mon Sep 21 18:01:54 2020
Check interval:           0 (<none>)
Lifetime writes:          18 GB
Reserved blocks uid:      0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid:      0 (group root)
First inode:              11
Inode size:               256
Required extra isize:     32
Desired extra isize:      32
Journal inode:            8
Default directory hash:   half_md4
Directory Hash Seed:      bf44b27a-a1e0-468a-afe6-4c6ea0708d19
Journal backup:           inode blocks
Checksum type:            crc32c
Checksum:                 0xd8e268b8
I see this error is thrown because the storage partition does not start at 2048. So the number doesn't mean shit.

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/blob/9eb334d99a1d2890fa7b17cf47250e94689d39ee/GRUB2/MOD_SRC/grub-2.04/grub-core/ventoy/ventoy.c#L1533

Please consider not hardcoding partition assumptions. I wanted to use Ventoy to compliment my already existing disk but I cannot without completely recreating from scratch.