[Bug 1734147] Re: corrupted BIOS due to Intel SPI bug in kernel

2018-02-02 Thread gamdow
> #556 ? Please explain how to fix it is i cant boot to ubuntu only access to live without previous OS It sounds like you have the same issue as me (only boot from Live USB), but you don't have an (inaccessible) installation of Ubuntu on the laptop's HDD? Do you have access to another computer

[Bug 1734147] Re: corrupted BIOS due to Intel SPI bug in kernel

2018-02-01 Thread gamdow
> #548 > Is it possible to create some sort of persistence on the liveusb, install the > latest kernel, then change my settings upon reboot? So I had the variety of this issue where I could only boot from the particular Ubuntu 17.10 Live USB I did the original install with (BIOS locked to a

[Bug 1734147] Re: corrupted BIOS due to Intel SPI bug in kernel

2018-02-04 Thread gamdow
@fardin Happy to hear you're making progress, though I won't be able to help you as much at this stage because your system is setup up differently from mine. Since you've reached the initrmfs terminal, you just need to locate "vmlinuz" now that the drives have been reordered. That should be

[Bug 1734147] Re: corrupted BIOS due to Intel SPI bug in kernel

2018-02-03 Thread gamdow
@fardin I'm no expert on the grub terminal, but you should be able to access all the attached devices even if you couldn't boot from them. There's maybe a command that lists all the partitions, but I was locked out of using modules thanks to SecureBoot. So I used the following method; The device