Hi,
on old hardware I made a Ventoy USB stick using MBR. This Vento USB stick worked.
The first partition was an ext4 partition holding
xubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
xubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-pers1.dat
ventoy/ventoy.json
the content of ventoy/ventoy.json was
There was a third partition formatted as fat32, holding data to share.
Now I try to make a Ventoy USB stick using GPT on new hardware. Actually it's the same USB stick.
I tried in 1001 way, never touched the second partition, but whatever I tried so far doesn't work. The closest to something working was done this way:
I used gparted to create the GPT and to create an 16380 MiB sized ext4 partition. Behind the ext4 partition were 13619 MiB left unallocated.
Then I run
Now I have got a first 16 GiB sized ext4 partition and a second 32 MiB fat16 partition and left are unallocated 13.27 GiB.
I copied
xubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
xubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-pers1.dat
ventoy/ventoy.json
to the ext4 partition, the files that were used by the MBR USB stick. I have done nothing to the second partition. When I boot I get the Ventoy menu with the Ventoy wallpaper claiming that no ISOs are available.
Other attempts without the "-n" option were even more worse. I got a black screen, the output was something similar to "invalid Ventoy".
Regards,
Ralf
on old hardware I made a Ventoy USB stick using MBR. This Vento USB stick worked.
The first partition was an ext4 partition holding
xubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
xubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-pers1.dat
ventoy/ventoy.json
the content of ventoy/ventoy.json was
Code:
{
"persistence": [
{
"image": "/xubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso",
"backend": "/xubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-pers1.dat"
}
]
}
Now I try to make a Ventoy USB stick using GPT on new hardware. Actually it's the same USB stick.
I tried in 1001 way, never touched the second partition, but whatever I tried so far doesn't work. The closest to something working was done this way:
I used gparted to create the GPT and to create an 16380 MiB sized ext4 partition. Behind the ext4 partition were 13619 MiB left unallocated.
Then I run
Code:
ventoy -i -r 13554 -g -n /dev/sdf
I copied
xubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
xubuntu-20.04.1-desktop-pers1.dat
ventoy/ventoy.json
to the ext4 partition, the files that were used by the MBR USB stick. I have done nothing to the second partition. When I boot I get the Ventoy menu with the Ventoy wallpaper claiming that no ISOs are available.
Other attempts without the "-n" option were even more worse. I got a black screen, the output was something similar to "invalid Ventoy".
Code:
# pacman -Q ventoy-bin
ventoy-bin 1.0.91-1
# ventoy -l /dev/sdf
**********************************************
Ventoy: 1.0.91 x86_64
longpanda admin@ventoy.net
https://www.ventoy.net
**********************************************
Ventoy Version in Disk: 1.0.91
Disk Partition Style : GPT
Secure Boot Support : YES
Ralf