Installing 15.0 using Ventoy does not work.

[balanga]

I just tried installing a 15.0=RELEASE ISO via Ventoy and it stops at a mountroot prompt. Failed with error 19.

Previous versions worked.

 

[cracauer@]

Hmmm, would for sure be good to fix this.

 

[balanga]

Hmmm, would for sure be good to fix this.

I guess no one has reported it yet.

 

[T-Daemon]

I guess no one has reported it yet.

There is a pull request to fix the problem with booting FreeBSD 15 images from November 2 from this repository: https://github.com/DrBassman/Ventoy.

If you don't want to wait to the official fixed version, you could build it right now, using that repository.

 

[balanga]

There is a pull request to fix the problem with booting FreeBSD 15 images from November 2 from this repository: https://github.com/DrBassman/Ventoy.

If you don't want to wait to the official fixed version, you could build it right now, using that repository.

I guess I would need Centos for that, but I don't know the first thing about it.

I don't suppose it would be possible to create a FreeBSD build environment.... I did create one for building OpenWrt on FreeBSD.

 

[T-Daemon]

I guess I would need Centos for that, but I don't know the first thing about it.

Nothing complicated: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/linux-unix/how-to-install-centos/

Ventoys build instructions recommends CentOS version 7.8 x86_64 as build platform. After installation (can be in a virtual machine, as suggested by ventoy), follow the ventoy build instructions.

 

[fmc000]

I reinstalled 15 on my test system (a 15+ years old - BIOS only - no UEFI) using Ventoy and it worked just fine first try, no issues whatsoever. Every once in a while I update my Ventoy installation and I believe I'm now running the latest one.

BTW, to upgrade Ventoy I usually download the latest ISO and boot into that... using Ventoy. Lisp lovers would appreciate it I suppose.

 

[balanga]

I reinstalled 15 on my test system (a 15+ years old - BIOS only - no UEFI) using Ventoy and it worked just fine first try, no issues whatsoever. Every once in a while I update my Ventoy installation and I believe I'm now running the latest one.

BTW, to upgrade Ventoy I usually download the latest ISO and boot into that... using Ventoy. Lisp lovers would appreciate it I suppose.

Exactly which 15.0 source did you use? I'd like to try the same one.

 

[fmc000]

Exactly which 15.0 source did you use? I'd like to try the same one.

[8:21][fmc000@dabrafenib ~]$ ls -l /media/Ventoy   
total 46643776
-rwxrwxr-x  1 fmc000 wheel 4464642048 Jul 15 15:00 FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso
-rwxrwxr-x  1 fmc000 wheel 1556140544 Nov  5 11:58 FreeBSD-15.0-STABLE-amd64-20251030.img
drwxrwxr-x  1 fmc000 wheel      32768 Feb  3  2024 System Volume Information
-rwxrwxr-x  1 fmc000 wheel 6140975104 Jul  7  2024 Win10_22H2_English_x64v1.iso
-rwxrwxr-x  1 fmc000 wheel 5789712384 Apr 26  2025 Win11_21H2_English_x64.iso
-rwxrwxr-x  1 fmc000 wheel 5734307840 Nov 16  2024 Win11_24H2_Italian_x64.iso
-rwxrwxr-x  1 fmc000 wheel  195706880 Nov 18 18:35 ventoy-1.1.07-livecd.iso
[8:21][fmc000@dabrafenib ~]$

 

[balanga]

[8:21][fmc000@dabrafenib ~]$ ls -l /media/Ventoy  
total 46643776
-rwxrwxr-x  1 fmc000 wheel 4464642048 Jul 15 15:00 FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso
-rwxrwxr-x  1 fmc000 wheel 1556140544 Nov  5 11:58 FreeBSD-15.0-STABLE-amd64-20251030.img
drwxrwxr-x  1 fmc000 wheel      32768 Feb  3  2024 System Volume Information
-rwxrwxr-x  1 fmc000 wheel 6140975104 Jul  7  2024 Win10_22H2_English_x64v1.iso
-rwxrwxr-x  1 fmc000 wheel 5789712384 Apr 26  2025 Win11_21H2_English_x64.iso
-rwxrwxr-x  1 fmc000 wheel 5734307840 Nov 16  2024 Win11_24H2_Italian_x64.iso
-rwxrwxr-x  1 fmc000 wheel  195706880 Nov 18 18:35 ventoy-1.1.07-livecd.iso
[8:21][fmc000@dabrafenib ~]$

I don't see a 15=RELEASE ISO there.

Have you really manage to boot from an .IMG?

 

[fmc000]

Yes, Ventoy can read almost anything.