On 18 April 2013 08:43, FredL <[email protected]> wrote: > I also don't understand the reluctance to release 32 efi compatible > media. The 64 bit media are well tested, support traditional bios > hardware, efi only and efi legacy. Why would this be different for 32 > bit. Leaving it with the (often non-expert) users to install it > themselves with several hooks and pitfalls seems a bit weak to me from > the side of ubuntu. I am a semi-experienced Linux user, but I am > reluctant to do this myself. > > As Dmitrijs sas "The bug here is against ubuntu-cdimage project that we > don't generate any 32-bit uefi capable installation media. But i'd like > to see a significant market share of 32bit-only-UEFI machines before we > do introduce such an image." > > What do you see as a significant markershare. There is a clear problem, > a clear demand from several users, a fair number of hardware affected > ... I'd say that sounds significant enough. >
The emphasis was on "32bit-only". Most of the UEFI booting by default machines are 64bit and thus they should be using the amd64 install media which is fully supported. Most of the 32-bit machines are BIOS only today. (7 year old macbooks are EFI by default, but still had BIOS boot available after Mac OS upgrade) In this bug report the Atom-System-on-a-Chip was identified as a 32bit platform with UEFI-only boot option. Supporting such platform would require creating a new install media. I am considering to spit that task as a separate request to support those machines. For all other machines, they are 64-bit capable and should be using amd64 media that works for them starting with 12.10 and 12.04.2 LTS releases. I don't follow, why should we adapt and create a second install media for UEFI+64bit machines at the expense of regressing and failing to boot older i386-bios machines. Atom-System-on-a-Chip systems don't have an install media at the moment, but they also were never yet supported, so it's not a regression but a desirable feature request. Regards, Dmitrijs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1025555 Title: Ubuntu i386 images are not compatible with recent (UEFI) computers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1025555/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
