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Ventoy and Secure-Boot
PDP-8:
Could be, but I see that as an unnecessary complication.
The easiest way to achieve that if you want TC's filesystem to live on the same stick, would be to reformat the 1st partition to ext2/3/4 or vfat, and use that for the tce directory. Put the TC64 iso back on that reformatted 1st partition if you like, although the latest Ventoy's allow you to browse/navigate to any other filesystem to hunt down the iso. (F2)
So for me, the use of Ventoy is really not to make an iso multibooter, but merely to provide a more advanced front-end bootloader for those machines that don't recognize the TC64 iso as bootable.
Once booted, all the standard TC options apply according to need. Use the fromISOfile command either post-boot, or in /opt/bootsync.sh ? Sure.
Use tce-setdrive to put the tce directory anywhere you want, and build up a system from there? Sure.
In two cases, I've merely made a Ventoy stick onto micro-sd cards without doing anything else since those ports are rarely used. But it makes a great front-end bootloader, since once written, it is only read-from when TC64 iso lives on another filesystem internally so I'm not even wearing out the sd-card - even though TC running from ram hardly touches it anyway.
I guess in the end what I'm saying is that there is no one good answer - TC and Ventoy together are so flexible that you simply find out what works for you best.
gadget42:
ventoy's supported operating system webpage is interesting - ventoy20220325
link(requires javascript to function properly):
https://www.ventoy.net/en/distrowatch.html
20220325-0446am - current page reports 247 operating systems check ok
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PDP-8:
The best part is that it is NOT a windows-only utility.
Even better is the ability to dd a stand-alone Ventoy boot disk with absolutely no iso's on it since you can merely navigate (F2) to any other supported filesystem to find the TC64 ISO once it boots.
It is a convenient way to solve the "TinycorePure64 doesn't boot on my machine". Ok, will a Ventoy disk boot? If so, you are golden, if not, then don't blame TC. :)
Being able to navigate to other filesystems, rather than being forced to put the iso on the same Ventoy boot stick, is that it is very convenient especially if that filesystem the TC64 iso is on is not fat32, but say ext2/3/4 - whatever you choose to place the iso on in the first place.
The only downside, is that for permanent grub modifications, you have to use the Ventoy json plugin method to do so. And possibly using the fromISOfile command after boot.
But I imagine that most who need to just fire up TC64 quickly from an iso, won't be permanently modifying their grub.cfg file anyway.
I live mostly in the xfbdev / fltk / flwm environment, but will admit I find it useful to put something like Gparted-Live iso on the Ventoy stick for those times when I need to get down with gparted, and still live happily with a very minimal TC for daily operations.
gadget42:
was reading some on openzfs:
https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20Bullseye%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html
and followed a link referencing grub:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46700
and noted this specific thread post:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46700#comment12
since we have discussed using ventoy to aid in booting operating systems it seemed appropriate to add it to threads mentioning ventoy and booting
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gadget42:
also see: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,25542.msg164673.html#msg164673
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