06-04-2024, 07:49 PM
I guess it is always a possibility that the USB drive is faulty but when I do a file compare of the more than 10 ISOs I have copied to it with the original ISOs on my computer they are identical. I therefore deem it unlikely that the USB drive is faulty.
The working Ventoy FAT32 partition is 31GB and the exFAT was the exact same size. When I had it formatted as exFAT I could see the various ISOs when I mounted it on a running CentOS system, I just could not see any ISOs when I booted it on any of the four computers I tried it on. Plugging the USB stick back into my running CentOS system they were visible and a file compare was good. Now when I have it formatted as FAT32 I can view and boot the ISOs as expected.
So, I am back at my original question: Do I need to make sure the exFAT driver is active in Ventoy somehow? How can I make sure it can be loaded? Maybe there is something wrong with the configuration of Ventoy on my stick when I installed it?
I think I found some old posts about problems booting from exFAT on the forum.
The working Ventoy FAT32 partition is 31GB and the exFAT was the exact same size. When I had it formatted as exFAT I could see the various ISOs when I mounted it on a running CentOS system, I just could not see any ISOs when I booted it on any of the four computers I tried it on. Plugging the USB stick back into my running CentOS system they were visible and a file compare was good. Now when I have it formatted as FAT32 I can view and boot the ISOs as expected.
So, I am back at my original question: Do I need to make sure the exFAT driver is active in Ventoy somehow? How can I make sure it can be loaded? Maybe there is something wrong with the configuration of Ventoy on my stick when I installed it?
I think I found some old posts about problems booting from exFAT on the forum.