On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 at 17:58, John McCue <jmcli...@jmcunx.com> wrote: > > I never heard of it, but what image did you copy to the drive ?
The standard ISO file. > > I looked at the WEB page and this quote from the page indicates > to me it will not correctly write the image to the USB Drive: You don't write an image to anything. You copy a file. It's a normal FAT32 filesystem with as many ISO files as will fit and it generates a boot menu on the fly every boot. It works on x86-32, x86-64, BIOS and UEFI. > FWIW, after I dd(1) an amd64 install image to a USB The point of Ventoy is avoiding `dd` and being able to store 20-30 bootable ISOs on a single USB key. I have tested it extensively with Win7, Win10, multiple Linux distros, FreeBSD and other OSes. Some OSes do fail though: AROS, Oberon/A2, Haiku, OS/2, and WinXP (which does not support booting from USB key at all). P.S. > I looked at the WEB page Why the block caps? It's not an acronym or initialism -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053