Ventoy installer install#

Please refer Notes for detailed information of the feature. So the part1 and part2 of Ventoy willīe at the first 106GB space and will not trigger the BIOS's limitation.

Ventoy installer install#

Take a 256GB USB drive for example, if the BIOS access limitation is 137GB, we can preserve 150GB space when install Ventoy.

'extrusion' Ventoy's part1 and part2 within the BIOS's access range. We can make use of this feature, to preserve some space at the end of the disk and to You can preserve some space at the end of the disk. So it need to read data out of the Legacy BIOS limitation immediately after boot. So normally these data will not exceed the BIOS limitation and there is no need to read data from where is out of the range during boot.īut with Ventoy, as mentioned in Disk Layout, the 2nd partition is at the end of the USB disk. When you make a bootable USB with other tools like Rufus, the USB drive will be reformatted and all the data in the ISO will be written into the USB from the begginning. Directly dropped into a grub shell when boot Ventoyģ. This problem is Legacy BIOS only, UEFI is OK.Ģ. Some HP server even has a 8GB limitation!ġ. Different BIOS may have different limitation values. It should be noted that, 137GB is just a more common value. 256GB), you will run into problem when booting. So if that's the case with the BIOS in your machine and you install Ventoy into a USB drive with large capacity(e.g. This is a BIOS issue and can not be fixed by any software unless you update the BIOS in the motherboard. If you search 'Legacy BIOS 137GB' in the internet, you will get many informations about that. For example, some Legacy BIOS can't read the disk beyond 137GB. There is an access limitation in some Legacy BIOS of some vendors.