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I've put this as general, as I'm not sure if there is a way to do it, if there isn't it's more of an idea.
I love Ventoy, but I'd really like a way to be able to install it to my main system's SSD. I would like to be able to add it to my EFI partition, and then add an exfat partition in order to load the images from there. I'd like this for the following reasons:
The main one is for recovery. Being able to just boot into an image of my choice when there's an issue with the main OS would be very useful. I don't always have direct access to a USB drive. Also of course easy to reinstall an OS.
Being able to maintain a list of images. I generally keep a bunch of system images in
~/images
. I'd love to be able to just mount that from the Ventoy partition, so any images I place in there just automatically show up on booting to it (I would also like to make a simple script to e.g. automatically download the latest Arch image weekly).Being able to simply test other operating systems. I sometimes boot into e.g. an Ubuntu live CD in order to test something. This would make it much easier and faster, without the limitations of a VM.
I have tried doing some basic things. E.g. just mounting my Ventoy USB drive, and copying over the EFI partition files to my EFI partition. It shows up in my bios, but I just get placed into a grub command line? I'm guessing it's related to the UUID of the exfat partition being incorrect, or something else?
I think this would be super beneficial. Maybe harder to implement, so how about you allow us generate the EFI files directly, specifying which partitions we will use?
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