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by BitJam » Tue Aug 18, 2020
the Ventoy Github site says:
“Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don’t need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it.”
This is the old “boot from iso mode” which we support but do not recommend. We offer a “fromiso=<file>” boot option for this but I imagine Ventoy is using grub to mount the iso file automatically. Once you get it to boot (we have Grub experts here who may be able to help you with the grub entry if it’s not working) then you can add one of the following boot options to specify a read-write persistence partition where we can store our persistence files:
pdev=xxxx (the persistence partition name such as sdb1 or /dev/sdb1)
puuid=xxxx (the UUID of the persistence partition)
plab=xxxx (the label of the persistence partition)The first time persistence is enabled we will create the persistence files for you if they don’t already exist. So all you need to do is point us to a read/write partition with one of the options above and you can also specify the form of persistence you want to use (with another option) if you don’t like the default. Normally we offer to save any boot parameters you used but booting directly from iso makes this either very difficult or impossible.
We support booting from iso file but we don’t recommend it because it’s not compatible with many of our extensive live-usb features. For example the live-remaster tool does not work with direct booting from an iso file. You could probably do this on your own by first making an iso snapshot and then manually copying the iso snapshot file overwriting the original iso file.
IF you want to try our extensive live-usb features then we recommend you use the live-usb-maker tool which comes with MX and antiX Linux. There is also an AppImage available if you want to run it on another Linux distro. Many people only run MX/antiX live using persistence and remastering to keep their changes. We tried to make this a “distro development tool” for creating your own customized version of antiX or MX. The constraints of booting directly from an iso file conflict with this distro development approach and also conflict with many of our other advanced features. It’s sort of like trying to combine a school bus with a Ferrari.
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And recent topic exploring fromiso boot parameter:
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/what-is-the-fromiso-parameter-and-when-how-do-you-use-it/antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.
rayluo
And recent topic exploring fromiso boot parameter:
What is the fromiso=… parameter, and when/how do you use it?
FYI, I started that “what is the fromiso=… parameter” post, with exact the same goal as “drag-and-drop to ISO to USB; (or even ideally dynamically choosing ISO from USB”, which is inspired by Ventoy. I did not make much progress in that experiment since then.
The Ventoy part works as advertised, allowing dynamically choosing any ISO from USB drive, including an antiX iso. BUT, an antiX booted this way does NOT have all the writable features available from a standard antiX liveUSB. So, Ventoy does not bring real value to my daily antiX workflow, and remains just a toy (pun not intended) to host a couple other distro for me.
Now I would hope the functionality the other way around: Create an antiX writable liveUSB as usual, and use it as such, but then occasionally somehow provides some boot parameter to instruct it to boot from a different ISO on the same liveUSB, and that ISO could be another antiX (say, 32 bit and 64 bit co-exist on same liveUSB available to be chosen at boot time), or it could even be a TENS, a Windows, etc.. //sing You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one…
Yes, can do. On the antiX liveboot device, already preinstalled: /boot/syslinux/chain.32
https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=EXTLINUX
The Syslinux Project boot loaders support chain loading other operating systems via a separate module, chain.c32. To use it, specify a LABEL in the configuration file with KERNEL chain.c32 and APPEND [hd|fd]<number> [<partition>]
https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Comboot/chain.c32
https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Doc/chain
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/syslinux#Chainloading
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85350/how-can-i-chainload-grub-from-syslinux
find (in page) “setting up menus” –} https://shallowsky.com/linux/extlinux.htmlXecure
Could using grub2-filemanager and combine it with antiX fantastic live init, fehlix’ live grub rescue options, Bitjam’s chroot-rescue, the isomount options, etc. bring a new age for antiX live USB technology?
UEFI is no longer the future. It is already here. All my Legacy_Bios machines died and only UEFI systems are left. Even MX Linux is now aiming for new modern machines with their AHS releases. Could we get them interested in this?
I am being shameless here, as I am expecting others to do something that I want (I tried to combine, by moving files to an antiX live USB and replacing the Grub folder, but I don’t know how to get it to connect to the live boot init; I am illitarate for this advanced technoly).
The live menus are OK, but I had to study the live boot parameters to really be able to get the best out of the grub live boot, and few will do that. Couldn’t we solve this by using real grub menus? Would it be difficult to translate? Would it be difficult to make a language menu selection add the lang=XX boot parameter automatically? If someone can point me in some good direction, I will try to implement it myself and make a “proof of concept”.
antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.ModdIt
Not sure if I am up to date, If understood correctly it might/is possible to ditch grub2 and boot on all systems,
inclusive full install, multi and frugal with syslinux, it seems very flexible.Maybe olstyn could shed some light on that, seems to me he is really digging in to what antiX can and might do.
I still have a lot of BIOS machines to look after. I find it hard to accept designed in defects and repair wherever
it seems worth doing, and I can find the problem with my limited knowledge and tools.
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