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Ventoy
Ventoy is an open-source tool to create a bootable USB stick. Ventoy enables the stick to contain multiple image files at once and easily add and remove it from the stick.
Setup
For Windows the easiest way to install Ventoy to an USB stick is to navigate to
the Ventoys download page.
On there download the file named similarly to ventoy-...-windows.zip.
After unzipping it an executable is contained that can install Ventoy to a USB stick.
For most Linux distributions Ventoy contained in a package named ventoy or
ventoy-bin.
Using it Ventoy can be installed to a USB stick with a command like the following.
In this example the USB stick to install to is listed under /dev/sdg.
ventoy -i /dev/sdg
Usage
This section addresses the usage of Ventoy.
Adding and Removing Boot Images
The most important steps to use a Ventoy stick is the adding and removal of image files to the
stick.
Unlike the usual flashing that is for example shown in the
Linux ISO Image entry .iso or other image files can just be moved or
copied to the empty partition of a Ventoy installed USB stick.
Using this partition the image files can also be removed.
Troubleshooting
This section will focus on errors and the fixing of errors of ventoy.
Error: Verification failed: (0x1A) Security Violation
This section is based on a
StackExchange comment by Pablo Bianchi.
When the message Error: Verification failed: (0x1A) Security Violation is shown after booting the
Ventoy stick it can easily be fixed.
For this press OK, then press any key to perform MOK management.
Select Enroll key from disk, VTOYEFI and ENROLL_THIS_KEY_IN_MOKMANAGER.cer.
Afterwards select Continue, Yes and finally reboot by selecting Reboot.
After performing these steps the Ventoy key should work as usual.