My Lenovo 305-15IBD is also affected. I'm dual-booting Win 10 and Ubuntu
17.10. I can see the option to boot from USB in the BIOS settings as
well as in the boot manager, but if I change the boot order it doesn't
save, and if I try to boot from USB from the boot manager I get an
error. Grub is otherwise working fine: I can still boot in both OS.
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Title:
Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS - many LENOVO laptops models
Status in Linux:
Unknown
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in linux-hwe-edge package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in linux-oem package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
Invalid
Status in linux-hwe-edge source package in Xenial:
Fix Released
Status in linux-oem source package in Xenial:
Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Artful:
Fix Released
Status in linux-hwe-edge source package in Artful:
Invalid
Status in linux-oem source package in Artful:
Invalid
Status in linux package in openSUSE:
New
Bug description:
SRU Justification
Impact: Many users are reporting issues with bios corruption with
17.10. This seems to stem from enabling the intel-spi-* drivers in the
kernel, which don't appear to be ready for use on end-user machines.
Fix: Disable this driver.
Test Case: Fix has been verified by our HWE team on affected hardware.
Regression Potential: Minimal, it's unlikely anyone is actually doing
anything which requires this driver.
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Hi all,
Basically on Lenovo Y50-70 after installing Ubuntu 17.10, many users
reported a corrupted BIOS.
It's not possible to save new settings in BIOS anymore and after
rebooting, the system starts with the old settings.
Moreover (and most important) USB booting is not possible anymore
since USB is not recognized. It's very serious, since our machines do
not have a CDROM.
Lenovo forums at the moment are full of topics regading this issue.
Thank you!!
UPDATE (22/12/2017)
LENOVO machines affected so far (please add your affected model to
this list):
Lenovo B40-70
Lenovo B50-70
Lenovo B50-80
Lenovo Flex-3
Lenovo Flex-10
Lenovo G40-30
Lenovo G50-30
Lenovo G50-70
Lenovo G50-80
Lenovo S20-30
Lenovo U31-70
Lenovo Y50-70
Lenovo Y70-70
Lenovo Yoga Thinkpad (20C0)
Lenovo Yoga 2 11" - 20332
Lenovo Z50-70
Lenovo Z51-70
Lenovo ideapad 100-15IBY
The bug also affects:
Acer Aspire E5-771G
Acer Aspire ES1-111M-C1LE
Acer TravelMate B113
Toshiba Satellite S55T-B5233
Toshiba Satellite L50-B-1R7
Toshiba Satellite S50-B-13G
Dell Inspiron 15-3531
Mediacom Smartbook 14 Ultra M-SB14UC
Bug may effect machines from any manufacturer that uses BIOS based on
Insyde Software. Insyde is responding to emails acknowledging that
they are aware of issue but are not providing details.
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Temporary workaround:
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-P-Y-and-Z-series/Y50-70-BIOS-Can-t
-Save-Settings-Or-Exit/m-p/3853208#M157885
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result from apport-collect 1734147:
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Architecture: amd64
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-22 (37 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
MachineType: LENOVO 20378
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-17-generic
root=UUID=7def04d3-7336-44b2-a084-2415f9dc2328 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-17.20-generic 4.13.8
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-4.13.0-17-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-4.13.0-17-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.169
Tags: artful wayland-session
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-17-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 08/12/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 9ECN43WW(V3.03)
dmi.board.name: Lenovo Y50-70
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Defined
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Lenovo Y50-70
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr9ECN43WW(V3.03):bd08/12/2015:svnLENOVO:pn20378:pvrLenovoY50-70:rvnLENOVO:rnLenovoY50-70:rvrNotDefined:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrLenovoY50-70:
dmi.product.family: IDEAPAD
dmi.product.name: 20378
dmi.product.version: Lenovo Y50-70
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
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