I would like to see this happen too. I've got at least one cheap Windows
machine here that simply can't boot Ubuntu without the aforementioned
awkward hacks. 64-bit CPU but 32-bit UEFI support only...
So far I've only been able to boot Android-x86 on such hardware, since
it has had UEFI 32-bit support in 64-bit images for some years.
On 04/10/17 01:01, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
On 3 October 2017 at 17:18, Khurshid Alam <khurshid.a...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
Hi Jeremy,
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 6:24 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
I don't know much about this topic. Can you point to more information about
this issue? Specifically, can you find a source for your 10 million claim?
I think it varies with country. On some country like here in India most of
them come with 32 bit uefi due to oem agreement I guess.
Hp claims they ship over 13 million units per 3/4-quarter only in US and
more than 80% are windows. That's how I deducted the number.
As for 32 bit uefi, Many dell inspiron i3 ($300-$500) still have 32 bit.
http://amzn.to/2kjv6Gf
Which are certified with UEFI 64bit on Ubuntu, and some of these are
even available with Ubuntu preinstalled from Dell direct.
https://certification.ubuntu.com/hardware/201508-19149/
Asus X and R series : http://bit.ly/2fHspJG (Only windows 10, dos are fine)
All the Asus cheap eebook series , like asus x205ta, https:/
/www.asus.com/in/Laptops/ASUS_EeeBook_X205TA/
Those which are pre-installed with ms-dos are fine. Also I found some are
listed in Ubuntu Desktop certified hardware but the are with 32 bit uefi.
(Technically it's ok, because on the website, Ubuntu 16.04 is listed as
supported and 16.04 has 32 bit. )
And are these devices even suitable for Ubuntu anyway?
Please check https://certification.ubuntu.com/ many of these have been
certified by Canonical and manufacturer to be explicitly compatible
with Ubuntu since like 14.04 LTS using the 64bit / amd64 OS images.
I have used hack from
https://askubuntu.com/questions/392719/32-bit-uefi-boot-support and from
https://askubuntu.com/questions/749306/
After installing everything works out of the box including sd-card reader
which never worked prior to 17.10.
Suggestion:
We only requ ire bootia32.efi on EFI/BOOT/ and i386-efi in boot/grub. May
these can be shipped with the iso?
That's what debian multiarch iso does
(http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/multi-arch/). This means both
grub-efi-ia32 and grub-efi-amd64 needs to be pre-installed for the live iso.
Thoughts?
Since none of the machines ship 32bit UEFI anymore, adding support for
32bit UEFI has diminishing returns. Patches to livecd-rootfs /
ubuntu-cdimage / d-i / ubiquity would be required to support this in
Ubuntu, and so far it has not been a priority to add support for.
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