Posting this since quite a bit has changed since I last posted about this on !technology@lemmy.world.

Here’s a rough breakdown of the current status:

  • shared Ventoy components: build and seem to work, needs more testing
    • grub / menu - builds
    • EDK II apps / UEFI chainloader and more - builds
    • iPXE / BIOS chainloader - builds, with fixes for newer toolchains
    • ISO9660 and UDF drivers - TODO
  • Ventoy CPIO / Linux ramdisk: builds; I deemed musl xzcat unneeded, so I skipped it; needs more testing
  • wimboot / Windows chainloader (?) - stalled, I lack the necessary knowledge to work on it
  • geom-ventoy / FreeBSD disk mapping kernel module - is being worked on, slowly; not ready for testing
  • anything else is a TODO

This should be enough to boot Linux with just what’s built manually, but I haven’t tried that yet.

Secure Boot is just done by using a pre-built bypass package. I’ll deal with that later.

Having more people testing this would be nice. :)

Cheers

  • fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    4 hours ago

    Interesting. Sadly it only supports FAT32, NTFS and EXFAT with no Linux filesystems.
    And Ventoy is free. It’s hard to argue with free.

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      3 hours ago

      Yeah that’s only for the partition that contains your ISOs.

      You can make another ext4 partition on it if you wanted, it just has to not be the first partition on the disk.

      Oh and the encryption feature is dumb dont even bother with it

      Also you still have to buy your flash drive so why not invest in something better