Easy2Boot

Company Overview

Flexible and configurable USB drive multiboot solution which also supports UEFI booting including Secure Boot.

Q&A

What makes Easy2Boot unique?

Boots Linux ISOs by physically mapping ISO file to a partition. This is a more generic way of booting.
Can Secure UEFI Boot 2024 computers by switching in a FAT32 image partition file of your Windows or Linux, etc. ISO. You then reboot from that partition. This means it supports Secure Boot without using shims, MOK Manager, certificates, etc.
Contains three menu systems, grub4dos (legacy), agFM (based on grub2 grubfm – legacy and UEFI), Ventoy for Easy2Boot (branch of Ventoy).
The USB drive can be converted to an official Ventoy drive (latest release of Ventoy can be used).
Install XP with mass storage drivers automatically added from an XP ISO.

Why should a person choose Easy2Boot over its competitors?

It has a steep learning curve, so really for use by techies who need one USB drive which supports a range of payloads.
Many types of payloads are supported – Win98, XP, floppy disk images, DOS images, partition images (useful for Secure Boot).
Online chat help (free).
Series of PDF eBooks available.

How would you describe your primary audience?

Keen amateurs to professional techs. Over 2 million downloads.

What’s the story behind Easy2Boot?

E2B started off as a grub4dos legacy-only boot menu system.

Support for XP ISO install with automatic mass storage driver was added (later also included in WinSetupFromUSB with permission)

Later a modified version of a1ive’s grub2-based grubfm was added to support UEFI booting

Later Ventoy for Easy2Boot was added (branch of Ventoy for use on an E2B drive)

Later, support for converting the USB drive into an official Ventoy-only USB drive – this allows the latest version of Ventoy to be used, if required, instead of the slightly older ‘Ventoy for Easy2Boot’ compiled version.

Easy2Boot is regaining popularity as it supports true Secure Boot of multiple payloads from one USB drive.

Which are the primary technologies used for building your product?

grub4dos, grub2, grubfm and Ventoy (all open source on github).
Some VB6 apps to help in the preparation of the USB drive, etc, are written by the developer (not available on github).
Once the USB drive is prepared, all software is open source or contains text readable source batch code.

Who are some of the biggest customers of Easy2Boot?

Repair shops, schools, Universities, amateur computer enthusiasts, companies.

External Sources including reviews & comparisons

14 Rufus alternatives for Linux, Mac, and windows

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www.technewstoday.com

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Social Recommendations

easy2boot freezes

Recommended XP ISOs are listed on the ‘Tested Payloads’ page of easy2boot.xyz site.

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over 1 year ago
Anyone of you dealt with corrupted NVME?

Last time I built a multi tool using YUMI but it was for legacy BIOS, not UEFI (clearly been a few years). https://easy2boot.xyz/ seems to be what I’m seeing reccomended for creating UEFI multiboot USBs these days, but I don’t have personal experience with it and I would save that project for another day.

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over 1 year ago
Including AHCI Drivers on ISO?

If you want to use your own iso and ntlite doesn’t work for you, try easy2boot (https://easy2boot.xyz/). It basically patches the iso on-the-fly with its own AHCI drivers (for x86 only) and ramdisk driver (which stores the iso file in ram so installation process is very fast). The AHCI driver is not up to date (compared to those on win-raid) but at least it works on my z97 motherboard so it should work for you.

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about 2 years ago
Another Windows 11 experience post. Tweaking for a more Deck-like experience!

There’s also Easy2Boot, which is pretty flexible and includes Ventoy.

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about 2 years ago