Heads cant boot from USB-drive with Ventoy
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I am using Ventoy to be able to have many ISO files on one USB-Drive and boot the ISO file i need at the moment.
Latest Heads version from yesterday ( heads-x230-maximized-v0.2.0-1380-gc4b964c.rom ) cant start Ventoy. Ventoy is able to start on any Coreboot payload i tried. It work fine with SeaBIOS and it works fine with TianoCore. Reason for this wide compatibility is, that Ventoy adds a boot menu for BIOS-mode and a boot menu for EFI-Mode. But Heads cant start Ventoy BIOS-mode and also cant start Ventoy EFI-mode.
Ventoy is free software and widely used for the use case of many ISO files on one flash drive to be able to choose from. Could someone take a look why it is not starting with Heads? Such basic functionality (booting from Ventoy USB-drive) should work.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the failure with Ventoy and heads-x230-maximized-v0.2.0-1380-gc4b964c.rom, testing both its BIOS and EFI modes. Compare the behavior with SeaBIOS and TianoCore, then trace the Heads/coreboot payload boot path. Done means Ventoy can start from the USB drive in at least the affected modes.
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- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
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- Over a week
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- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100