[Bug 702283] Re: usb-creator doesn't create EFI-bootable USB sticks

[Scott James Remnant]

The latter bit isn't true; current Chrome OS developer firmware will allow
you to boot any developer-signed USB stick.

But it is true that these have to be laid out so that the Chrome OS firmware
understands them, which means EFI, the particular GPT layout, etc. not as a
standard El Torito image or similar. So creating a hybrid image is going to
be very very hard indeed.

Scott

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Title:
  usb-creator doesn't create EFI-bootable USB sticks

Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: usb-creator

  USB startup disk creator seems to create USB disks which can boot on
  traditional BIOS based PC's but not EFI based computers such as Apple
  Mac laptops, Jogglers, Google CR-48. This reduces the number of people
  who can test Ubuntu on machines that could significantly benefit from
  the testing.

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