I have been troubleshooting this problem for a while and no luck. At one point my uefi only laptop did boot from it but not anymore. Frustratingly I only get the "Linpus lite" boot option which does nothing and my Windows boot option. Strangely if I format a usb drive using Easy2Boot with agfm that drive will be recognized by the computer boot menu as USB HDD. If I delete all the files from the EFI partition of the E2B drive and replace them with Ventoy files it goes back to Linpus lite again. If I then delete all the Ventoy files and put back the E2B+agfm files, I still get Linpus lite again. Only doing a clean install of E2B+agfm will make it recognize the USB as bootable again. E2B sets first partition as boot and second partition with "lba" flag. Ventoy sets first partition as boot and second with "esp" flag. Changing partition flags has no effect though. The only way around this is to go to the bios and manually add the EFI file as trusted, but it's not a good solution. If I use a different USB with Ventoy I have to add the EFI files again even though they're exactly the same. Could be UEFI just sucks on this Acer laptop although it won't boot in Virtualbox either. Not sure why the bootx64.efi is refusing to be recognized/loaded by UEFI booting when USB sticks created with E2B or rufus work fine. I was hoping to use the Kaspersky shim same as E2B to load Ventoy but usb can't be recognized as bootable either way.
I was hoping to use a Ventoy disk for troubleshooting support on different PCs, I'll have to find another UEFI computer to test.
I was hoping to use a Ventoy disk for troubleshooting support on different PCs, I'll have to find another UEFI computer to test.