#Ventoy efi install
#Ventoy efi update

Ventoy supports a large number of Linux distributions. This means you have booted in UEFI or EFI mode and so your payload files (ISOs, VHDs IMG files, etc.) must support UEFI booting. In this case, Ventoy may have problems when booting an ISO file. In Ventoy 1.0.79 I cant´t load: - Dariks Boot and Nuke 2.3.0 - MiniTool Partition Wizard Enterprise 12.6 - MiniTool Partition Wizard Technician12.6.

#Ventoy efi install

This is a 32GB USB drive's layout after install Ventoy in it (with 2GB reserved space). ls -C1 /media/duchess/Fedora-WS-Live-34-1-6/ EFI images isolinux LiveOS It would be lovely to. Alough the probability is relatively low, there do exist some buggy BIOS firmware that is not standard. You can preserve some space at the bottom of the disk. LBA34 ~ LBA2047 is used to store legacy bios bootloader of Ventoy (same with MBR format). This partition is very small and used by ventoy, so you better not change anything in this partition.Īs for GPT format, there is a protect MBR in the 1st sector (LBA0), and then from LBA1 ~ LBA33 is the GPT partition head and partition table. Create bootable USB devices from the image files of different operating systems with UEFI and legacy BIOS supported. These files are very small, so 32MB is enough.īesides, the EFI partition can be at part1 also, but I set it at part2 just because that in some version of Windows like Windows 7, only the first partition of the USB drive is visable to the system. So this partition is created to hold EFI boot file and other files nesscessy to Ventoy.

There must be an EFI System Partition with FAT filesystem and that's the mandatory requirements of UEFI specifications.

It should be noted that, if you choose XFS/Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, the USB will be unavaliable on Windows and can not be used to install Windows.īut if you only use Linux that will be a good choice, because XFS/Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 will have better performance in Linux. You can reformat the 1st partition with other filesystem, now exFAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/XFS/Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 are supported.

#Ventoy efi update

Once Ventoy is installed onto a USB drive, there is no need to reformat the disk to update it with new installation files it is enough to copy the. efi files onto storage media to create bootable USB flash drives. exFAT has better compatibility on Windows/Linux/Mac and exFAT is suitable for USB stick. Ventoy is a free and open-source utility used for writing image files such as.

By default, Ventoy select exFAT filesystem for the main partition to hold iso files.