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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

How to update BIOS on a system that only use Linux as OS.

Asking this because some clowns at Acer decided that they will only provide BIOS updates through Windows Update.

Edit: I'm not talking about installing the BIOS file. They don't even provide BIOS file in the first place.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you can extract the EXE i believe

Yes, that's possible.

But, I am scared about screwing uy BIOS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That is always a risk when updating a bios!

Depending on the motherboard (I think its more on desktop mobos) you get two bios chips, one used to recover from a bad flash of the other

edit it could also be the case there hasn’t been a bios update released

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is a new BIOS update. But I think I'm just gonna leave it at this point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You might as well try. Had a similar issue with Samsung SSD, where they only had support for windows with a .exe, but which created a small Linux system that was installed in the UEFI boot position. So I searched for the Linux executable in the middle of all that mess and executed it directly. Problem solved.