Solved Installing 15.0 using Ventoy does not work.

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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.
 
T-Daemon said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
fmc000 said:
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.
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Exactly which 15.0 source did you use? I'd like to try the same one.
 
balanga said:
Exactly which 15.0 source did you use? I'd like to try the same one.
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Code: 
[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 ~]$
 
fmc000 said:
Code: 
[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 ~]$
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I don't see a 15=RELEASE ISO there.

Have you really manage to boot from an .IMG?
 

Ventoy

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk again and again, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it.
www.ventoy.net www.ventoy.net

  • 2025/12/08 --- 1.1.08 release
    1. Add support for FreeBSD 15.0

Just about to test it.




Tested and boots OK
 
T-Daemon said:
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.
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I am the one who made that pull request...

The file ventoy_unix.cpio is the only file that is updated. You can download it directly from the github pull request https://github.com/DrBassman/Ventoy/blob/master/INSTALL/ventoy/ventoy_unix.cpio.

Then, assuming the ventoy EFI partition on your thumb drive is mounted under /path/to/VTOYEFI, you can:

# cp ventoy_unix.cpio /path/to/VTOYEFI/ventoy

I built the fix using one of the FreeBSD 15.0-BETAs. I haven't had time to re-build it with 15.0-RELEASE code.
 
If anyone has an existing Ventoy installation which they want to update, you can do this by copying

Ventoy - Browse /v1.1.08 at SourceForge.net

A New Bootable USB Solution
sourceforge.net sourceforge.net

to the first partition of your Ventoy disk. This provides an update option. Unfortunately you can't update the disk you have booted from so you need to create a second Ventoy disk but that is simple enough to do using a spare pen stick. You need to select 'Show all devices' to display all attached devices.


Once you have done that copy this and a FreeBSD 15 iso to the first partition of the new device and boot from that so that you can update the original device.

Incidentally when installin Ventoy I always select GPT partitioning and format the first partition as ext4 which is easily mounted from FreeBSD using '-t ext2fs'.
 
balanga said:
If anyone has an existing Ventoy installation which they want to update, you can do this by copying

Ventoy - Browse /v1.1.08 at SourceForge.net

A New Bootable USB Solution
sourceforge.net sourceforge.net

to the first partition of your Ventoy disk. This provides an update option. Unfortunately you can't update the disk you have booted from so you need to create a second Ventoy disk but that is simple enough to do using a spare pen stick. You need to select 'Show all devices' to display all attached devices.


Once you have done that copy this and a FreeBSD 15 iso to the first partition of the new device and boot from that so that you can update the original device.

Incidentally when installin Ventoy I always select GPT partitioning and format the first partition as ext4 which is easily mounted from FreeBSD using '-t ext2fs'.
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I'm not sure if I follow you but with the Ventoy ISO you can definitely update the disk you have booted from. That's exactly what I've been doing for years, I have a single Ventoy stick that I update every once in a while.

You have to copy the ISO in the normal partition, boot from that ISO and follow the instructions. It will update the code in the other partition to the latest Ventoy release.
 
fmc000 said:
I'm not sure if I follow you but with the Ventoy ISO you can definitely update the disk you have booted from. That's exactly what I've been doing for years, I have a single Ventoy stick that I update every once in a while.

You have to copy the ISO in the normal partition, boot from that ISO and follow the instructions. It will update the code in the other partition to the latest Ventoy release.
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Not sure what you mean by 'normal' partition. Ventoy uses two partitions, one for bootable ISO's etc, the other for its system files. I normally partition the remainder creating numerous partitions, sometimes ten or more and installed various OS's on them.

Are you saying you can update Ventoy to v1.1.08 by booting from v1.1.08 livecd.iso from partition one?
 
balanga said:
Actually, I just tried that and it does work, so I don't what I must have done before.

Sorry about the confusion.
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Exactly what I was saying. Ventoy can update by itself, so to speak. That's the only way to do it if you don't use neither Windows nor Linux, like myself as I only use FreeBSD.
 
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