(05-24-2020, 03:00 PM)Tinkl Wrote: same problem, and on version 1.0.11 too. My computer does not consider this flash drive bootable.The first 2048 sectors are the first 1MiB of the disk, which carry the MBR + GAP described on the disk layout page. If you run any Linux distro, I recommend that you test the flash drive on qemu to see if it is possible to boot through it, and you could also make a backup of the first 1MiB and upload it here so that the developer can check if there is something wrong.
BIOS, old pc Dell vostro motherboard G33m02
The same thing happened when I installed Kali (as full OS) on the stick on the second partition too. Then I found a solution, but I don’t remember which one. I remember there were manipulations with the first 2048 sectors after installation, and maybe something else. I can’t google it again.
Code:
sudo dd if=/path/to/flash/drive of=MBRandGAP.img bs=1MiB count=1And as a question for the developer, maybe I am suffering something similar. As in my other post, I'm trying to turn an external HD into a bootable Ventoy disk without losing my current data (I don't have another disk to backup it). I was able to install Ventoy and boot with UEFI (creating and restoring the second partition). To boot with Legacy BIOS, I backed up the first 1MiB of a flash drive created by Ventoy, backed up the original partition table of the external HD (sudo dd if=/path/to/external/hd of=partitiontable.img skip=466 bs=1 count=64), restored the backup of 1MiB to the external HD (the first partition of the external HD also starts in sector 2048) and then I restored his original partition table (sudo dd if=partitiontable.img of=/path/to/external/hd seek=466 bs=1 count=64). The external HD has booted by the qemu BIOS normally, but not by the computer's motherboard. Do you have any idea what I can do?
Edit: I discovered my error, I needed to use fdisk to set partition 2 type to ef and set the boot flag