Hi there! I heard, that the best ISO boothing method for CachyOS is ventoy.
So I unpacked it, ran “VentoyGUI.x86_64” selected the drive, installed with ‘Secure Boot enabled’ and as GPT, and placed my OS isos on it’s partition.
I booted the USB stick, and all the OS appears, and all of them are bootable (Mint, Windows) except CachyOS.
It doesn’t say anythin, I just press enter for normal mode, comes up a command line for 2-3 seconds and then returns back to Ventoy. The Grub mode instantly returns to Ventoy.
Tested both with fast boot enabled/disabled
Tested both with CSM support enabled/disabled
Tested both OS types (OtherOS/WindowsUEFI)
Note: Windows UEFI came back with the glorious blue Security violation error
I would put images here how my bios workds but the forum doesn’t allow me so
What If I install Ventoy in MBR and without secure boot? Both checked
MBR - Secure enabled disabled
GPT - Secure enabled disabled
And I changed the bios’s settings too (Enabled secure boot and disabled it)
And it gave me random syntax errors and then returned back to the main screen
(Again can’t link more than 2 images sorry)
Any ideas or something I forgot?
Or any kind of debugging/logging so I can see what the problem could it be?
Thanks in advance
Okay. I don’t actually “fixed” it since I don’t know what the problem is because I don’t get any log or any actual error code but if you have this rare problem like I have: Flash it with balena etcher. It will work. Somehow at this date of time, with there program/iso/bios versions what I have it will not work with Ventoy. It will work every OS with ventoy except CachyOS. So If you have the same issue, get Balena Etcher’d.
As far as I know it works fine from Ventoy for me. I’ll make sure I have the latest iso and test it again…and edit this comment.
One thing is make sure your Ventoy is ALWAYS at the latest patch level.
Edit: Boots fine on my hardware (non-NVIDIA btw)
And another thing…make SURE you allow the write to complete, either by issuing a ‘sync’ command or unmounting the USB device. People always think that just because they copied a file, it’s done…it’s NOT, buffering IS a thing.
But Sunda is correct, try other avenues if Ventoy doesn’t work, like dd. Some distros will not work with Ventoy (though those are fewer these days, it seems).
archlinux distributions works with Secureboot disabled and GPT
by DEFAULT ventoy install is NOT GPT , with SECURE BOOT ACTIVE
see more : ventoy -h
ventoy -h
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Ventoy: 1.1.05 x86_64
longpanda admin@ventoy.net
https://www.ventoy.net
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Usage: Ventoy2Disk.sh CMD [ OPTION ] /dev/sdX
CMD:
-i install Ventoy to sdX (fails if disk already installed with Ventoy)
-I force install Ventoy to sdX (no matter if installed or not)
-u update Ventoy in sdX
-l list Ventoy information in sdX
OPTION: (optional)
-r SIZE_MB preserve some space at the bottom of the disk (only for install)
-s/-S enable/disable secure boot support (default is enabled)
-g use GPT partition style, default is MBR (only for install)
-L Label of the 1st exfat partition (default is Ventoy)
-n try non-destructive installation (only for install)
