kiezel
Crew Member
Posts: 143
Likes: 220
|
Post by kiezel on Dec 27, 2021 22:49:52 GMT
Today, I've found a way to update the BIOS on a Lenovo laptop from which I wiped Windows long ago, even though the BIOS update provided by Lenovo was a Windows installer. I had already tried many approaches in the past couple of days, but all failed. Then I thought of trying to do it from within a legal and free live session from Windows PE, and that was finally successful. This is how: easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/draft.html#ID14(item 14) In the hope that it'll be useful one day for someone else as well.  |
|
kev392
Crew Member
Posts: 356
Likes: 474
|
Post by kev392 on Dec 28, 2021 6:21:57 GMT
Today, I've found a way to update the BIOS on a Lenovo laptop from which I wiped Windows long ago, even though the BIOS update provided by Lenovo was a Windows installer. I had already tried many approaches in the past couple of days, but all failed. Then I thought of trying to do it from within a legal and free live session from Windows PE, and that was finally successful. This is how: easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/draft.html#ID14(item 14) In the hope that it'll be useful one day for someone else as well. Fortunately I've never had to deal with those 14 issues. No Wi-Fi for me (on purpose). #10 for Grub install failing and #14 for Lenovo laptop BIOS updating without Windows, very nice Grub install: typo's appears to be a typo  |
|
kiezel
Crew Member
Posts: 143
Likes: 220
|
Post by kiezel on Dec 28, 2021 9:36:14 GMT
typo's appears to be a typo Thanks for the alert!  That particular typo was present on several pages on my website, but I've fixed it now. |
|
|
|
Post by Hippytaff on Dec 28, 2021 9:41:00 GMT
Some useful stuff there. I see you have also experienced Realtek fun and games.
|
|
xpistian
Crew Member
Posts: 182 
Likes: 129
Member is Online
|
Post by xpistian on May 18, 2023 13:53:21 GMT
While this topic is old, it might still be relevant: At least if you have a T-Series Lenovo laptop, they provide bootable ISOs that you just flash on a USB-drive or burn to a CD like any Linux ISO you'd want to install and boot that.
EDIT: It's a raw CD image and wont just work when you copy (of course, never worked that way) it to a USB-drive or use some tools like Balena Etcher!
Now, if you don't want to waste a blank CD/ DVD, you have to convert the CD ISO to a hybrid ISO - but isohybrid will not work and error out with "isohybrid: [nameofyouriso].iso: unexpected boot catalogue parameters
You need to use geteltorito: In a terminal type: geteltorito [nameofyouriso].iso > [nameofyournewiso].img
geteltorito is part of the package genisoimage, which you can install with
apt install genisoimage
|
|
kev716
Member
Posts: 1
Likes: 0
|
Post by kev716 on Jul 18, 2023 23:07:38 GMT
I've only been able to find a BIOS for my Ideapad in an exe file, not iso. I want to try the Hiren's Boot CD PE method to update my BIOS as shown in the first post. I downloaded the HBCD_PE_x64.iso file and used dd to copy it to an usb drive, but when I boot my laptop into the BIOS menu the usb does not show in the list of options to boot from. I tried the same procedure with the Bodhi iso and it booted fine, so it doesn't seem to be an usb or laptop issue.
What am I doing wrong?
|
|
bumpus
Member
Posts: 16
Likes: 6
|
Post by bumpus on Feb 8, 2024 20:11:20 GMT
Its perfectly legit to download a win10 or win11 iso from M$ website and install it without activating it. If you leave it very long start getting a "unactivated watermark" nag on every window. Oh and you supposedly cant change themes or wallpaper. Thats it. I think they did this mostly cause well most x86 computers anymore come with windows preinstalled. So you can reinstall and it will activate from key in the bios. But also to keep people from installing linux or android. Losing market share hurts more than bit money, cause they make money tracking you and forcing marketing updates.
Anyway if you can get by using PE then thats easier. Just saying win10/11 can run fine and 99.9% fully without activation, and its perfectly legit, though M$ of course rather you give them money.
Used to be you could just boot from a windows boot floppy and install bios update from that, but suppose they dont have a DOS way of doing it anymore. Most people would be clueless using DOS.
Still not sure why anybody voluntarily runs windows daily, but some software does require it. I run it once a year for tax software, cause the one year I tried to do it in WINE, took me three days to make it work. For a once in a blue moon thing, just run windows. There is even free third party software to move an install of windows to usb drive and it will then boot off that. So you dont even have to actually have it installed on computer, just boot it from usb drive when needed. It wont natively do this, especially with HOME versions. Need to use that third party method.
|
|
|
|
Post by tenplus1 on Feb 9, 2024 7:25:30 GMT
This is how I updated my Thinkpad bios:
sudo apt install fwupd
sudo service fwupd start
sudo fwupdmgr refresh
fwupdmgr get-devices
fwupdmgr get-updates
sudo fwupdmgr update
|
|
