I was able to unlock the BIOS in my Acer Aspire ES1-512-C89Y. I had to take out the laptop HDD and connect it to my desktop. I then installed 16.04 LTS 64-bit (because I had the 32-bit version of 17.10), put the HDD back into the laptop and performed the steps presented in the first post.
After a couple of reboots BIOS was saving the settings. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734147 Title: corrupted BIOS due to Intel SPI bug in kernel To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/1734147/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
