Ubuntu CD Images

  1. Bug #1025555
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 1025555

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote : Re: [Bug 1025555] Re: Ubuntu i386 images are not compatible with recent (UEFI) computers

On 18 April 2013 00:15, Phillip Susi <email address hidden> wrote:
> Why would a bios only 32 bit machine fail to boot simply because there
> happens to be a directory named "efi" on the cd image with some files in
> it? It shouldn't know or care that the disc is efi bootable.
>

Well there is also GPT partition table and a second EFI partition on
the image as well.
You can inspect it with `kpartx -a *.iso`. That can choke.....
I'd love to for not a single machine to regress by failing to boot the
i386 image with added UEFI support.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.