I installed endeavour os and pop os just fine with ventoy.
Both are clean installs around febr/march 2025
Interesting. I used ventoy. Went without a hitch.
Pretty much everything youāre missing is probably in COPR. Itās like their āAUR.ā
All Linux distros can be installed via Ventoy, but the right configuration is crucial. The initial formatting of the Ventoy drive (GPT or MBR), enabling or disabling Secure Boot, and choosing between normal or GRUB mode when booting an ISO all play significant roles. With the correct settings, every ISO will load successfully.
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I mean when both versions (grub/uefi) refuse to load OS, then what? The confugation was good for some distros and poor for others? At the same time? And the next random OS boots up perfect then whatās the conclusion?
I have to think itās hardware and other things.
To all here believing in an infallible Ventoy experience with all OSās: Ventoy inconsistency is a well-known known, as it were, Iāve read many posts about it around the web. Not necessarily a Ventoy thing, but factors no one here is talking about yet.
look at second reply:
some ISOs donāt have a uefi option
some BIOS are whack with all this stuff
specific ISO corrupt
usb itself
etc
Donāt get me wrong. I would like a perfect experience. I have older hardware so there is that variable too
Based on my years of experience with Ventoy, I canāt say with absolute certainty, but Iāve found that issues are far more likely due to poorly developed BIOS firmware rather than Ventoy itself being the root cause.
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absolutely
I have not used Ventoy in a minute, mostly because of reports like I read here. I was curious, so I downloaded the most recent version of Ventoy ( as of April 2025, that is 1.1.05 ) and the latest version of EOS ( EndeavourOS_Mercury-Neo-2025.03.19.iso ). I used an old 16GB USB drive I found about a year ago ( so origins unknown and quality suspect ). EOS booted and loaded to desktop under both normal and grub2 boot options. I did not want to install it on the machine I was testing ( a 2014 Dell Optiplex 7010, 16GB ram, UEFI boot enabled ). I guess it seemed to work just fine. Maybe Iāll try using Ventoy again? 
Itās definitely a tool in your arsenalā¦esp to maintain several boot isos on one media device
Ventoy works fine, you just have to update it if youāre using an old version, and make sure the distros are from the supported list
My distro hopping ended with only two making the cut: Endeavour and Cachy. Vanilla Arch would obviously make the cut too but I canāt be bothered to install it