I have been slaving away over a hot keyboard for weeks now writing an introductory eBook (PDF) on Ventoy and it is now finally finished!
You can get this new manual/user guide now for only $5 from Payhip here (10% discount if you buy more than one eBook).
Even though it is written specifically for Ventoy users, it also applies to 'Ventoy for Easy2Boot' which is a slightly modified version included with Easy2Boot.
As with all my eBooks, all future revisions are free - just keep the original confirmation email and download any later revisions if they appear (you can subscribe too).
This new eBook is up to date and can be used with the latest Ventoy v1.0.56 which was released today.
Please let me have any feedback (good or bad!).
P.S. The developer LongPanda provides Ventoy for free and also constantly maintains it. You can make a donation to support LongPanda and Ventoy here.
eBook: Getting started with Ventoy
If you would like to learn more about Ventoy and how to use the ventoy.json configuration file, learn what are the best options to use when creating your Ventoy drive, learn how to boot ISO and other payload files from Partition 3 of the Ventoy drive, run Linux files with persistence, automate the installation of Windows, install Windows 11 to a non-TPM system, create your own themes, etc. then it's all here!
Getting started with Ventoy (v1.00 - 2021-10-22)
Contents:
Chapter 1 - Introduction ... 5
Chapter 2 - Glossary of terms ... 7
Chapter 3 - Make a Ventoy multiboot USB drive ... 9
GPT or MBR? ... 9
Ventoy partitions 9
Is your USB drive larger than 128GiB? ... 10
Typical Ventoy Legacy\MBR partition arrangement ... 12
Secure Boot ... 13
Using the Ventoy installer... 15
Beware of fake flash drives!... 15
Recommended USB drives ... 15
Exercise 1: Make a Ventoy drive under Windows ... 16
Troubleshooting Ventoy installation and updates ... 16
Exercise 2: Make a Ventoy drive under Linux ... 18
Re-format Partition 1... 20
Updating Ventoy ... 21
Chapter 4 - Using the Ventoy USB drive ... 22
Exercise 3: MBR-boot to the Ventoy menu... 23
Exercise 4: Add an Ubuntu ISO... 25
Exercise 5: Add more Linux ISOs... 29
Chapter 5 - Using the Ventoy menu ... 30
Ventoy menu keys ... 31
Ventoy Menu Function keys 32
Special Ventoy keys ... 32
Debug mode ... 33
Exercise 6: Grub2 mode ... 34
Troubleshooting summary... 35
Chapter 6 - Add more payload files... 36
Exercise 7: Add a Windows 10 Install ISO ... 36
Exercise 8: Add the Parted Magic ISO... 38
Exercise 9: Add PassMark's MemTest86 memory test ... 39
Chapter 7 - Hide some files/folders from Ventoy ... 41
Chapter 8 - The Ventoy user configuration file (ventoy.json)... 43
Ventoy.json syntax rules: ... 44
JSON Syntax checker... 46
Multimode... 49
Chapter 9 - Ubuntu with persistence ... 50
Exercise 10: Ubuntu 64-bit ISO with persistence 51
Exercise 11: Kali 64-bit ISO with persistence 57
Chapter 10 - Windows Installs using an XML file 59
Exercise 12: Install Windows 10 Professional onto any computer... 60
Exercise 13: Platform specific XML file ... 63
Chapter 11 - Install Windows 11 to systems with no TPM 65
Exercise 14: Install Windows 11 on old hardware... 65
Chapter 12 - Add WinPE ISOs... 68
Strelec WinPE ... 68
Exercise 15: Add the Strelec WinPE ISO 69
Hirens Boot CD WinPE ... 70
Exercise 16: Add HBCD_PE ISO... 70
Other useful WinPE ISOs 71
Chapter 13 - Add AntiVirus ISOs... 72
Chapter 14 - Add Chrome OS ISOs (CloudReady and FydeOS) 73
CloudReady (UEFI64 only)... 73
FydeOS 73
Chapter 15 - Add Windows .wim files (wimboot plugin)... 74
Exercise 17: Add support for booting .wim files... 74
Chapter 16 - Add Windows .VHD files (Win VHD plugin) ... 75
Exercise 18: Add support for .VHD files 75
Chapter 17 - Boot from other drives/partitions/files (grubfm) ... 76
Exercise 19: Add grubfm and boot ISOs from any drive or partition... 76
Chapter 18 - Change the default Ventoy menu theme ... 79
Exercise 20: Add a 'Seven-of-nine' theme... 81
Exercise 21: Random themes ... 83
Exercise 22: How to make your own Ventoy theme ... 84
Chapter 19 - Specify the exact menu entries (Image List plugin)... 85
Exercise 23: Exclude legacy-only ISO files in the UEFI menu... 85
Whitelist menu ... 87
Chapter 20 - Replace the menu filenames with text (Alias plugin) 88
Chapter 21 - How to display grub2 menu icons (Class plugin)... 89
Chapter 22 - Display payload tips to the user (MenuTip plugin) ... 91
Chapter 23 - Add your own grub2 menus (Extension plugin)... 93
Exercise 24: Make a simple ventoy_grub Extended menu ... 95
Chapter 24 - Auto-select Memdisk mode for some payloads (Auto-memdisk) ... 97
Chapter 25 - Add passwords (Password plugin)... 98
Chapter 26 - Other Ventoy features... 99
Chapter 27 - How to recompile the Ventoy source code 100
Chapter 28 - Important BIOS bugs and features that you really need to know about! ... 101
Chapter 29 - Bootable devices (USB 3 devices are best!) 103
IODD Mini ... 104
Chapter 30 - So how does UEFI-booting actually work then? ... 105
UEFI booting... 107
EFI Shell... 108
Chapter 31 - Secure Boot... 110
About UEFI Security (PK, KEK, DB and DBX) ... 110
Platform Key (PK)... 110
Key Exchange Key (KEK) ... 110
Whitelist Database (DB) ... 110
Blacklist Database (DBX) 111
Machine Owner Key (MOK)... 111
How Secure Boot works... 111
Secure Boot and Mok Manager... 112
How to disable Secure Boot ... 113
Chapter 32 - Grub2 configuration file syntax... 116
Words ... 116
Reserved words... 116
Quoting ... 116
Variable expansion 116
Locale strings... 117
Comments... 117
Simple commands ... 117
Compound commands... 117
Built-in Commands 118
Chapter 33 - grub2 troubleshooting... 120
Linux ISO boot issues ... 120
Theme errors - 'alloc magic is broken'... 121
Corrupt screen/bad screen resolution... 121
Chapter 34 - Useful links... 122
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