On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 02:29:10PM -0000, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On a hard disk the EFI system partition is a separate partition, but I
> did not think this was the case on removable media.  I thought for CDs
> you just got an /EFI directory within the normal iso9660 filesystem.

> I thought the the partition table is part of the new hybrid cd stuff and
> is only used when you dd the image directly to a flash drive, and isn't
> required to boot the installer in EFI mode.

That "new hybrid CD stuff" is an integral part of all of our image builds;
and adding EFI into the mix on 32-bit definitely carries a high risk of
regressing currently-supported configurations, either as CD or as HD.

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  Ubuntu i386 images are not compatible with recent (UEFI) computers

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