Open vjkarbo opened 2 years ago
When you boot into Ventoy's main menu, don't press Enter
when select the dfly-x86_64-6.0.1_REL.iso
but press m
and calculate its md5sum to see whether the result is a27b7e980e84b67251c3f40e9a22a846
That is to check whether the ISO file was corrupted during you copy it to the USB.
Doc about m
hotkey:
https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_checksum.html
The checksum is correct. I checked it even earlier (I put the file with the checksum on the USB flash drive). And I checked it again now. I can't even imagine how you manage to test images on a virtual machine, but apparently this is the reason. I would be glad if someone tested it on their old computers (without UEFI bios). I will check on another computer in the morning and also change the flash drive and report the result.
By the way, this has been repeated for at least a year, I tested it on several versions of ventoy (but on the same flash drive). I just decided to report just now.
You can test with another USB drive for comparison.
Can it work OK if you dd
the ISO file to the same USB or use some other tool to create a bootable USB stick?
It is not a bootable ISO file. With a simple copy with dd, the computer does not recognize anything. Programs for creating bootable usb from iso report the absence of a partition table (for example, balena-ethcher).
Dragonflybsd has a bootable .img, https://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/iso-images/dfly-x86_64-6.0.1_REL.img.bz2 which is correctly recognized and fully loaded into a rewritable live system if copied using dd (tested on this flash drive several times).
I also repeated the manipulations with the ventoy with another Transcend Jet Flash 8Gb drive, but no result:
@vjkarbo What about the latest 1.0.62?
On two machines the same thing:
latest 1.0.64 and latest 6.2.1 release: http://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/iso-images/dfly-x86_64-6.2.1_REL.iso
Latest Ventoy 1.0.69 - the picture is not changed. By the way, I see that the problem was reported in the bugtracker: https://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/3313
Official FAQ
Ventoy Version
1.0.61
What about latest release
Yes. I have tried the latest release, but the bug still exist.
BIOS Mode
Legacy BIOS Mode
Partition Style
MBR
Disk Capacity
8GB
Disk Manufacturer
Transcend
Image file checksum (if applicable)
Yes.
Image file download link (if applicable)
https://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/iso-images/dfly-x86_64-6.0.1_REL.iso
What happened?
It stops trying to initialize. Tested on both older versions of dragonfly release and current. The first photo is from a desktop, the second is from a laptop. Both devices with Legacy BIOS.
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