[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1734147] Re: Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS - many LENOVO laptops models

2017-12-24 Thread Marcin Ciosek
#275 Very similar procedure I have shared with few of other Lenovo forum members (and few others from here). Sadly, did not receive feedback or some were not able to follow my instructions. Key was to force BIOS recognizing changes by replacing hard drive. My trick was to have same partitions map

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1734147] Re: Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS - many LENOVO laptops models

2017-12-21 Thread Marcin Ciosek
@toxicpublic If you dare, you can download the BIOS exe from Lenovo site, extract the content and take the binary firmware file and next follow the service recovery guide: https://www.bios-mods.com/bios-recovery/insyde-bios-recovery/ However, I doubt this will help. This is not touching the now-

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1734147] Re: Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS - many LENOVO laptops models

2017-12-19 Thread Marcin Ciosek
I don't think this fix is meant to repair already affected systems rather to avoid this event in fresh installs. But as it has been software induced the good news is that this can be restored... As long as you still have running system available. -- You received this bug notification because yo

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1734147] Re: Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS - many LENOVO laptops models

2017-12-14 Thread Marcin Ciosek
Dear Colleagues. TL;DR - there is hope! I've been approached by Anthony from Canonical and later Brian from Lenovo. We have agreed I will send my Laptop to Lenovo for investigations. So I wanted to prepare fresh system (clean my personal data, naturally). After making the hacks and changes I did r

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1734147] Re: Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS - many LENOVO laptops models

2017-12-02 Thread Marcin Ciosek
Since people don't care to read whole discussion I'm going to repeat myself here every few posts. It is not caused by Ubuntu 17.10 It is general Linux issue (I was Antergos user when it hit me) Solution is to physically replace NVRAM chip and reflash it with the content from the old one. Workarou