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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was genuinely excited when I first learnt about the Ventoy from a YouTube, then I came to these:

Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months https://programming.dev/post/19516543

so maybe I'll hold off with Ventoy for now?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Funny, I'm flashing a new PC as we speak and using dd instead of ventoy for this very reason. I've also used Balena Etcher in the past.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

good 'ol dd, that's a good way to do it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah, well... turns out the USB wasn't bootable (grub said it couldn't load the kernel) so I redid it with Balena and it worked fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I noticed yesterday that openSUSE specifically recommends not using Ventoy, due to possible boot issues: https://en.opensuse.org/Create_installation_USB_stick#Ventoy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Just use cp instead. No reason to use dd.