On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 at 12:52, Martin Husemann <mar...@duskware.de> wrote: > > The web page does not give any technical details, so it is hard to tell > how it is supposed to work.
I don't know, to be perfectly honest. I have not looked into it: it's just a convenience tool that is both much quicker than writing an image to disk, easier, and saves on rewriting keys: one key is a Linux install key, and a Windows install key, and a few recovery environments such as System Rescue. > Since you tested it with FreeBSD: what devices shows up as root device > there? I can try it and check if you really need to know! The source is here if you're curious: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy > Extracting the bootloader and dynamically generating the boot menu is the > easy part, but how is the main part of the ISO filesystem provided to > the kernel? I think it mounts it on a separate virtual device, as the booted live OS can see the raw Ventoy drive and UEFI partition _as well as_ running from its ISO file. > On some architectures (and amd64 is one of them) the kernel booted from > the ISO is not ramdisk based, but instead mounts the CD's ISO9660 file > system as / (and sets up tmpfs for all writable parts). You can choose whether to copy the ISO to a RAMdisk and boot from that, if you have enough RAM and want to be able to remove the key. > I don't see how that could work outside of an emulator. It does, very well, and it works equally well on BIOS and UEFI. -- 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
