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[issue]: first partition is not formated hence Linux OS is not able to mount it #2544

Open ganomi46 opened 1 year ago

ganomi46 commented 1 year ago

Official FAQ

Ventoy Version

1.0.95

What about latest release

Yes. I have tried the latest release, but the bug still exist.

Try alternative boot mode

Yes. I have tried them, but the bug still exist.

BIOS Mode

UEFI Mode

Partition Style

GPT

Disk Capacity

32GB

Disk Manufacturer

No response

Image file checksum (if applicable)

None

Image file download link (if applicable)

No response

What happened?

When I install Ventoy on the USB stick (Linux), the first partition is not formatted, hence I cannot open it to place my ISO on it.

ganomi46 commented 1 year ago

It does not work for me following the steps in the documentation.

  1. Installing Ventoy works.
  2. KDE (SUSE Tumbleweed) does not allow me to mount the first partition.
  3. I mount the first partition manually with exfat and copy Windows ISO image file
  4. When I boot Ventoy it tells me it cannot find any IMG files.

Its not user friendly. Difficult to use. I would expect this to work with one click.

ganomi46 commented 1 year ago

It looks like the first partition is not formated

NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS sda
├─sda1
└─sda2 vfat FAT16 VTOYEFI F767-A619

ganomi46 commented 1 year ago

It looks like when I boot ventoy is not able to read the first partition with exfat. It does not recognize exfat.

AlexBoXY commented 1 year ago

Same here. (ventoy 1.0.95) I had to reformat the first partition to ext4 as mentioned in the Installation FAQ "5. Can I reformat the 1st (bigger) partition ?" After that i could mount and write the /ventoy/ventoy_grub.cfg to it.

I did the following steps:

  1. insert the usb stick, but do not mount
  2. run sudo mkfs -t ext4 -L Ventoy /dev/sdX1 Naming the Partition with -L Ventoy is crucial. It's not stated in the FAQ but it will not work otherwise!
  3. after that you can mount and write to the partition.

BUT...after i rebooted, mounted the device again and wrote a ventoy.json into the /ventoy folder, it got completely unaccessable for Ventoy at the next boot from the usb-device. Very strange, i'm completely clues why? ;(