Re: How to can upgrade my BIOS?

On 31.10.2024 08:50, William Torrez Corea wrote: My system was Windows, I am using Debian 6.1.112-1 (2024-09-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux but my BIOS is out-of-date; i have the BIOS A07 of the following date: *11/14/2013 * The last BIOS in this system (Dell Inspiron 14R 5437) was: 1. Version: A12

Re: How to can upgrade my BIOS?

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 09:36:05AM CET, Sven Hoexter said: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 09:50:54PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > My system was Windows, I am using Debian 6.1.112-1 (2024-09-30) x86_64 > > GNU/Linux but my BIOS is out-of-date; i have the BIOS A07 of the fol

Re: How to can upgrade my BIOS?

On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 09:50:54PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > My system was Windows, I am using Debian 6.1.112-1 (2024-09-30) x86_64 > GNU/Linux but my BIOS is out-of-date; i have the BIOS A07 of the following > date: > > > *11/14/2013 * > > The last BIOS in th

Re: How to can upgrade my BIOS?

Le 31/10/2024 à 04:50, William Torrez Corea a écrit : Dell Inspiron 14R 5437 Hello, Dell website offers instructions to flash the BIOS without Windows: one has to make a bootable DOS USBkey: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/inspiron-14r-5437/drivers FreeDOS

Re: How to can upgrade my BIOS?

Don't, if the one you have does everything you need it to do. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

How to can upgrade my BIOS?

My system was Windows, I am using Debian 6.1.112-1 (2024-09-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux but my BIOS is out-of-date; i have the BIOS A07 of the following date: *11/14/2013 * The last BIOS in this system (Dell Inspiron 14R 5437) was: 1. Version: A12, A12 2. Release date: 27 Sep 201 3

Re: BIOS unreadable at boot

On 9/16/24 03:32, Anssi Saari wrote: Will Mengarini writes: ViewSonic 15E Isn't that a CRT from the '90s? So you have some adapter for HDMI? Is there really no other monitor you could use? I tried using a search engine and came up empty: https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=site%3AViewSon

Re: BIOS unreadable at boot

t of sync, using an unsupported resolution. > I'm getting into BIOS setup but can't tell where to go from there > because I can't read the monitor to tell what keys I should press. The F12 menu might be a simple list, in which case you could try typing blind: F12 wait Ret

Re: BIOS unreadable at boot

Will Mengarini writes: > ViewSonic 15E Isn't that a CRT from the '90s? So you have some adapter for HDMI? Is there really no other monitor you could use?

Re: BIOS unreadable at boot

On 16.09.2024 04:12, Will Mengarini wrote: I am trying to install Debian on a new prebuilt, but when I boot and press , the screen is garbled. Windows later figures it out, but by that time it's too late to tell the BIOS to boot from a USB stick on which I've installed netinst. The

Re: BIOS unreadable at boot

y because the specified boot order starts with the SSD. > > So I want to change the boot order so it boots the USB > stick first, but I can't, because I can't read the > setup screen that I access by pressing F2 during boot. > So this is actually a monitor/motherboard probl

Re: BIOS unreadable at boot

* Felix Miata [24-09/15=Sun 22:01 -0400]: > Will Mengarini composed on 2024-09-15 16:12 (UTC-0700): > > > I am trying to install Debian on a new prebuilt, but when I > > boot and press , the screen is garbled. Windows later > > figures it out, but by that time it's

Re: BIOS unreadable at boot

* Charles Curley [24-09/15=Sun 18:15 -0600]: > On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 16:12:45 -0700 > Will Mengarini wrote: > > > I am trying to install Debian on a new prebuilt, but when I > > boot and press , the screen is garbled. > > Slow down. When you boot what? A Debian installation (which, > presumably, ap

Re: BIOS unreadable at boot

* David Christensen [24-09/15=Sun 17:13 -0700]: > On 9/15/24 16:12, Will Mengarini wrote: > > I am trying to install Debian on a new prebuilt, but when I > > boot and press , the screen is garbled. Windows later > > figures it out, but by that time it's too late to tell

Re: BIOS unreadable at boot

Will Mengarini composed on 2024-09-15 16:12 (UTC-0700): > I am trying to install Debian on a new prebuilt, but when I > boot and press , the screen is garbled. Windows later > figures it out, but by that time it's too late to tell the > BIOS to boot from a USB stick on whi

Re: BIOS unreadable at boot

If the latter, which one, the netinst installer or a live CD (which has its own less flexible installer)? Or a USB stick made from one of those? And where exactly is it failing? In the on-board firmware (BIOS)? Grub? During the boot process? Also, which version of Debian? The current one, 12.x (bo

Re: BIOS unreadable at boot

On 9/15/24 16:12, Will Mengarini wrote: I am trying to install Debian on a new prebuilt, but when I boot and press , the screen is garbled. Windows later figures it out, but by that time it's too late to tell the BIOS to boot from a USB stick on which I've installed netinst. The

BIOS unreadable at boot

I am trying to install Debian on a new prebuilt, but when I boot and press , the screen is garbled. Windows later figures it out, but by that time it's too late to tell the BIOS to boot from a USB stick on which I've installed netinst. The mobo is a Gigabyte B450M DS3H WIFI (rev 1.5),

Re: migrating grub from BIOS to UEFI loses /etc/default/grub

Le 28/05/2024, Harald Dunkel a écrit: > Full thread is on debian-boot mailing list. I've read it now, thanks for the info, Harald! Regards -- Florent

Re: migrating grub from BIOS to UEFI loses /etc/default/grub

Full thread is on debian-boot mailing list.

Re: migrating grub from BIOS to UEFI loses /etc/default/grub

Hi, Le 24/05/2024, Harald Dunkel a écrit: > if I migrate from grub-pc to grub-uefi, then grub-pc.postrm > removes /etc/default/grub on the final purge. I confirm the behavior, have been bitten by this. IMHO, it is a nasty bug: suppose your rely on your kernel command line to disable, say, the I

migrating grub from BIOS to UEFI loses /etc/default/grub

Hi folks, if I migrate from grub-pc to grub-uefi, then grub-pc.postrm removes /etc/default/grub on the final purge. grub2 doesn't provide much information in its man pages, but AFAICT /etc/default/grub is still processed for UEFI, so why is it deleted? Regards Harri

Re: BIOS version

On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 10:09:47PM +0100, Mick Ab wrote: > Is there a command that can be used to determine the BIOS version being > used on the motherboard. > > I have used dmidecode, OKay > but at the bottom of the man page for dmidecode there is :- > > "More o

Re: BIOS version

Mick Ab wrote: > Is there a command that can be used to determine the BIOS version being > used on the motherboard. > > I have used dmidecode, but at the bottom of the man page for dmidecode > there is :- > > "More often than not, information contained in the

BIOS version

Is there a command that can be used to determine the BIOS version being used on the motherboard. I have used dmidecode, but at the bottom of the man page for dmidecode there is :- "More often than not, information contained in the DMI tables is inaccurate, incomplete or simply wrong."

Re: Bios problem

ly just a case of typing the right magic. Tell us what you see when you type ls. If it's a bios error like 'no boot device found' then chances are you're going to need to use a rescue disk to reinstall grub.> A rescue disk might be a good idea anyway to inspect what is in t

Re: Bios problem

: >> Good afternoon, >> i installed a linŭx deepin operating system in addition to debian and linŭx >> mint and when i start the fujitsu it boots to the bios as if there is no >> operating system. >> What to do? >> Good for you. >> Mr. Dominique Simeone >

Re: Bios problem

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 12:49:25PM +, Simeone Dominique wrote: > Good afternoon, > i installed a linŭx deepin operating system in addition to debian and linŭx > mint and when i start the fujitsu it boots to the bios as if there is no > operating system. > What to do? >

Bios problem

Good afternoon, i installed a linŭx deepin operating system in addition to debian and linŭx mint and when i start the fujitsu it boots to the bios as if there is no operating system. What to do? Good for you. Mr. Dominique Simeone

Fujitsu S751 BIOS password [was: I don't have word pass bios?]

boot on the bios I don't have password. > > Do you have a solution? A web search gives this result, perhaps it is helpful: https://superuser.com/questions/913650/remove-fujitsu-lifebook-bios-password-on-startup Perhaps someone around here has other ideas. Good luck! -- tomás si

I don't have word pass bios?

Good evening, I have a computer Lifebook Fujitsu S751 I installed debian, linŭx mint and deepin but the computer boot on the bios I don't have password. Do you have a solution? Best wishes Mr.Dominique Simeone

Secure boot [was: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 12:12:53PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] > >The biggest accomplishment SecureBoot achieved under Windows 8 was > >locking out other operating systems. And that did not last very long. > > Sigh. Secure Boot also does a reasonable job of blocking persistent > pre-boot

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

Jeff wrote: >On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 9:51 PM Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> 2) So I turn on Secure Boot? > >I recommend turning SecureBoot off. > > - UEFI > * GPT = on > * SecureBoot = off > >And legacy modes, like BIOS legacy = off. > >In Secur

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

> My Dell Inspiron E1505 shipped in 2007 with a 32-bit Core Duo > T2250 processor. In 2016, I STFW and saw that certain 64-bit Core 2 Duo > processors sometimes worked in this laptop (depending upon motherboard > hardware revision?). I bought and installed a T7400, and it works! Same here: I upgr

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On 1/23/23 09:40, Stefan Monnier wrote: There is no such thing as an Intel Core* CPU that is 32bit. Actually, the first "Core" branded CPUs ("Core Solo" and "Core Duo") were still 32bit, back in 2006 (that was the time-window during which AMD had already switched to 64bit CPUs and Intel still h

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

> There is no such thing as an Intel Core* CPU that is 32bit. Actually, the first "Core" branded CPUs ("Core Solo" and "Core Duo") were still 32bit, back in 2006 (that was the time-window during which AMD had already switched to 64bit CPUs and Intel still hoped it could move people over to IA64 in

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > > > 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a D

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

Russell L. Harris composed on 2023-01-22 04:15 (UTC): > Inspiron 3542 > Intel Core i5-4210U > ram = DDR3L > No indication of 32-bit or 64-bit. There is no such thing as an Intel Core* CPU that is 32bit. Yours is from 2014, roughly 8 years after Intel quit making 32bit X86 mainline processors:

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On 1/22/23 18:51, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian 11

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 11:06:10PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > In SecureBoot, the only thing that is attested are the disk images. > > There's no guarantees about the program once it is in-memory and > > executing. What's being executed in-memory is the important thing. > > Indeed, it's impor

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

gt;> >On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> >>I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > >> >>3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian > >The Latitude 3510 was released in 2020. I doubt it is a

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 04:15:19AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Actually, I received three old laptops. I got Debian 11 running on > one of them; the BIOS reports: > > Inspiron 3542 > Intel Core i5-4210U > ram = DDR3L > > No indication of 32-bit or 64-bit. All Inte

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 10:47:02PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 9:51 PM Russell L. Harris wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: >On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: >>I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

> In SecureBoot, the only thing that is attested are the disk images. > There's no guarantees about the program once it is in-memory and > executing. What's being executed in-memory is the important thing. Indeed, it's important to remember tht SecureBoot's name comes from the fact that it's desig

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 9:51 PM Russell L. Harris wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > >On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: > >>I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > >>3510 to cause it

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 02:51:05AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > > > 3510

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). For

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). RLH On 1/20/23 07:34, Russell L. Harris wrote: > # cp debian-11.

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 03:18:31PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 10:35 AM Russell L. Harris > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:28:21PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > [...] > > >How did you create the flash device - what command did you use? > > > > After d

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On Sat, 21 Jan 2023 at 07:19, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 10:35 AM Russell L. Harris > wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:28:21PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > # cp debian-11.6.0-i386-netinst.iso /dev/sdb > > # sync > > I believe you should use dd to preserve the ph

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

t; On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 03:43:09 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> > > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > >> > > 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian > >> > > 11) written to USB fla

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 10:35 AM Russell L. Harris wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:28:21PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > [...] > >How did you create the flash device - what command did you use? > > After downloading the official netinst iso image, I copied it to the > flash stick (I ro

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

ut how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > > 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian > > 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). BTW you don't say whether you've ever booted it from any kind of stick. The machine was a gift; this is my fi

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

d out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > > 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian > > 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). The problem is that the "one-time menu" does not include the flash device. How did you create the flash de

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 05:23:06 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:18:33PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 03:43:09 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > &g

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 05:23:06AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:18:33PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 03:43:09 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude >

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:18:33PM -0600, David Wright wrote: On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 03:43:09 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian 11) written to USB flash

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 03:43:09 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian > 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). Typically you'd tap away at F12

dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). RLH -- He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness

Re: How could "they" get into your BIOS? ...

rwards. I am curious > to know why would DL care about a wireless card in a temperamental > way? The way I read your OP, you haven't reached any involvement with Debian Live yet. I assumed you were at some sort of POST, or post-POST stage, though my Dells are probably much older than y

Re: How could "they" get into your BIOS? ...

On 8/13/22 14:09, Albretch Mueller wrote: On 8/12/22, David Wright wrote: I typed the text at the top of the screen in your first image, and got plenty of suggestions from Dell, reddit, and some Scottish Uni gamers. Basically, what I distilled out of many of those posts is that you should d

Re: How could "they" get into your BIOS? ...

On 8/12/22, David Wright wrote: > I typed the text at > the top of the screen in your first image, and got plenty of > suggestions from Dell, reddit, and some Scottish Uni gamers. Basically, what I distilled out of many of those posts is that you should disable "Secure Boot", but I had already d

Re: How could "they" get into your BIOS? ...

On 8/12/22, David Christensen wrote: > When the laptop is off, insert the Debian Live media into a suitable > port. Power up the laptop and press the F12 key repeatedly until a boot > menu is displayed. Select the Debian Live media and boot. If this does > not work, post the messages displayed

Re: How could "they" get into your BIOS? ...

On Fri 12 Aug 2022 at 06:53:04 (-0500), Albretch Mueller wrote: > not allowing you to boot DL? > When you try to get into your boot options you are entangled into a > nonsense loop ... > I removed the wireless card from that laptop. They want for you to boot > into Windows for obvious reasons. >

Re: How could "they" get into your BIOS? ...

On 8/12/22 04:53, Albretch Mueller wrote: not allowing you to boot DL? When you try to get into your boot options you are entangled into a nonsense loop ... I removed the wireless card from that laptop. They want for you to boot into Windows for obvious reasons. Any way out of or around it yo

Re: How could "they" get into your BIOS? ...

Am Freitag, 12. August 2022, 13:53:04 CEST schrieb Albretch Mueller: >From the DELL Site: To access the BIOS or System Setup on Dell computers: 1. Press the F2 key several times at the Dell logo screen during startup. 2. Or, press the F12 key several times at the Dell logo scr

How could "they" get into your BIOS? ...

not allowing you to boot DL? When you try to get into your boot options you are entangled into a nonsense loop ... I removed the wireless card from that laptop. They want for you to boot into Windows for obvious reasons. Any way out of or around it you would suggest?

Re: Converting a BIOS (CSM) Debian installation into UEFI

vars, the efibootmgr's listing, and the contents (and actions) of the EFI menus when you boot into the firmware interface (reached with Esc F9 here, IIRC). > Once you have a unique /boot/efi/EFI/ entry for each installation, you > /should/ be > able to switch which has control either in

Re: Sid : reboot looses boot partition and goes directly to bios

-amd64 x86_64 Up: 3h 1m > Mem: 9300.6/15483.7 MiB (60.1%) Storage: 238.47 GiB (66.6% used) Procs: 386 > Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.12 > > Some time ago (say one month), I noticed that if I reboot my Sid (with KDE > menu or reboot from a console) the computer goes to the BIOS, loosing

Re: Converting a BIOS (CSM) Debian installation into UEFI

e put in the MBR. I avoid this by changing the default GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian` to e.g. GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="bookworm" Once you have a unique /boot/efi/EFI/ entry for each installation, you /should/ be able to switch which has c

Converting a BIOS (CSM) Debian installation into UEFI

With the threads on "Stupid question" and "Throw an hard drive" in d-u at the moment, this seems timely: I have a drive which contains two Debian installations, one of which (B) was installed for BIOS booting, and the other (E) was installed with EFI booting. I would like to

Re: Sid : reboot looses boot partition and goes directly to bios

7 GiB (66.6% used) Procs: 386 > Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.12 > > Some time ago (say one month), I noticed that if I reboot my Sid (with > KDE menu or reboot from a console) the computer goes to the BIOS, > loosing the partition start order. > > If I choose my Debian partition firs

Re: Sid : reboot looses boot partition and goes directly to bios

Sébastien Kalt wrote: ... > If I stop the computer (shutdown -h now or with KDE menu) it boots > normally to grub when powered on. > > I don't really know when it starts, I rarely reboot my system, last time > might be last november. > > I don't really know where to look to find what might goes wro

Sid : reboot looses boot partition and goes directly to bios

Procs: 386 Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.12 Some time ago (say one month), I noticed that if I reboot my Sid (with KDE menu or reboot from a console) the computer goes to the BIOS, loosing the partition start order. If I choose my Debian partition first, everything returns to normal, booting to grub, letti

Re: 回覆: Debian boot entry won't generated after flash BIOS.

t;> entry automatic when the original boot entry disappeared? BecauseI’m >> confused the problem is cause by BIOS or Debian. > >Kibi (Cyril Brulebois) mentioned >https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#Force_grub-efi_installation_to_the_removable_media_path >during a discussion on IRC we ha

回覆: 回覆: Debian boot entry won't generated after flash BIOS.

-proj...@lists.debian.org; May Tseng; Jasmine Kang; debian-user@lists.debian.org; Steve McIntyre 主旨: Re: 回覆: Debian boot entry won't generated after flash BIOS. Hi Alvin, thank you very much for reaching out to Debian with this issue. Am 07.10.21 um 11:18 schrieb Alvin Huang: > Beside the

Re: 回覆: Debian boot entry won't generated after flash BIOS.

by BIOS or Debian. Kibi (Cyril Brulebois) mentioned https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#Force_grub-efi_installation_to_the_removable_media_path during a discussion on IRC we had about your mail. I assume this wiki page details the issue you are seeing. Windows installs a fallback EFI executable and

回覆: Debian boot entry won't generated after flash BIOS.

Hi, Thanks for your reply. Beside the generate boot entry by manual. Does Debian will generate the boot entry automatic when the original boot entry disappeared? Because I’m confused the problem is cause by BIOS or Debian. BR, Tel : 886-2-7745 5793 Alvin Huang 寄件者: Cyril Brulebois [mailto:k

Re: Debian boot entry won't generated after flash BIOS.

Hi, Alvin Huang (2021-10-07): > I've the questions need your help. We found the boot entry will > disappeared after BIOS flash and it cause we can't boot into Debian > system by itself, we need boot into Debian through the UEFI Shell boot > file. > Does the boot entr

Re: FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) (was: Re: smart fans)

Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Google "Coreboot supported motherboard" ? > > And going to see this page as the first choice > > https://coreboot.org/status/board-status.html Great, so was it on the list? It wasn't, right? Bummer... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org

Re: FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) (was: Re: smart fans)

On 2021-08-22 10:04 a.m., Emanuel Berg wrote: > Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > >> Google "Coreboot supported motherboard" ? >> >> And going to see this page as the first choice >> >> https://coreboot.org/status/board-status.html > > Great, so was it on the list? I don't know ! Why don

Re: FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI)

The Wanderer wrote: >> There is a grub-coreboot package, is that it? > > No. If you look at the output of > > $ apt-cache show coreboot > > you'll see that it says > > "This is a dependency package for a version of GRUB that has > been built for use with platforms running the > Coreboot firmware."

Re: FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) (was: Re: smart fans)

On 2021-08-22 2:28 a.m., Emanuel Berg wrote: > Reco wrote: > >>> This made me think, is there a FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) that you >>> can install/flash to replace the manufacturer's? >> >> Coreboot is what you're thinking of. Supported motherbo

Re: FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) (was: Re: smart fans)

BIOS seems to be: $ sudo dmidecode -t bios # dmidecode 3.3 Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs. SMBIOS 3.2.0 present. Handle 0x, DMI type 0, 26 bytes BIOS Information Vendor: American Megatrends Inc. Version: 2801 Release Date: 09/18/2019 Address: 0xF

Re: FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) (was: Re: smart fans)

Reco wrote: >> This made me think, is there a FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) that you >> can install/flash to replace the manufacturer's? > > Coreboot is what you're thinking of. Supported motherboard's > list is extremely limited though. There is a grub-coreboo

Re: FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI)

On 2021-08-22 at 02:28, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Reco wrote: > >>> This made me think, is there a FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) that you can >>> install/flash to replace the manufacturer's? >> >> Coreboot is what you're thinking of. Supported motherboar

FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) (was: Re: smart fans)

> There is fancontrol (pwdconfig(1)) but I don't get it to > work ... The BIOS (UEFI) can maybe be used but I don't > have/use a mouse and I dislike the UI ... > > $ sudo dmidecode [...] This made me think, is there a FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) that you can install/

Re: FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) (was: Re: smart fans)

Hi. On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 07:25:34AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > There is fancontrol (pwdconfig(1)) but I don't get it to > > work ... The BIOS (UEFI) can maybe be used but I don't > > have/use a mouse and I dislike the UI ... > > > > $ sudo

Re: [SOLVED] BIOS upgrade on an Acer laptop (was: Battery drain with poweroff)

Nicolas George (12021-02-08): > Now I need to see if it fixed my problem of battery drain; I have good > hope. Thanks to everybody who pitched for help. I confirm, after 36 hours of power down, the battery had not visibly changed. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP si

[SOLVED] BIOS upgrade on an Acer laptop (was: Battery drain with poweroff)

Nicolas George (12021-02-08): > Thanks, I never think of BIOS updates. This is the one for my exact > model, and the title looks very promising. > > Now I need a way to apply it; apparently I need some way to boot > Windows. I hope I will not need to overwrite the complete drive wi

Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine

On 2021-01-15 18:22, Linux-Fan wrote: I back up with   cd / && find home -xdev -print0 | cpio -o0 -H crc | gzip | openssl enc -md sha256 -salt -pass file:passwordfile -aes-128-cbc >backup.cpio.gz.aes  Thank you for the `openssl` commandline. However, since I upgraded to buster, that opens

Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine

Jesper Dybdal writes: On 2021-01-14 23:21, Linux-Fan wrote: Finally out of curiosity: You mention using CPIO archives. Do you have any input files above 8 GiB for your backup processes? I always thought that to be the limit of CPIO? My backups do not contain large files within the cpio arc

Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine

On 2021-01-14 23:21, Linux-Fan wrote: Finally out of curiosity: You mention using CPIO archives. Do you have any input files above 8 GiB for your backup processes? I always thought that to be the limit of CPIO? My backups do not contain large files within the cpio archives, so I don't know wh

Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine

this again in depth, not only can I not > find those statements again, all the reports of this behavior in the > real world seem to be on Dell computers. I remember finding it stated > that Dell had no choice in this because of what Intel had done, but I'm > not finding those again now

Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine

On 2021-01-14 07:41, Jesper Dybdal wrote: I backup my Buster server simply as a (compressed, encrypted) cpio archive. Restoring it to a BIOS-based machine is simple: boot a rescue cd, partition the disk, restore all files, fix fstab if necessary, run update-grub and grub-install in a chroot

Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine

Alain D D Williams writes: On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 04:41:50PM +0100, Jesper Dybdal wrote: > I backup my Buster server simply as a (compressed, encrypted) cpio archive. > > Restoring it to a BIOS-based machine is simple: boot a rescue cd, partition > the disk, restore all files,

Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine

Jesper Dybdal wrote: ... > (My knowledge of UEFI is almost non-existent, and my knowledge of grub > is very limited.) if you are not mixing Debian with any other system and installing from scratch all you have to make sure of is that the system is detected as an UEFI system to begin with and th

Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine

rs. I remember finding it stated that Dell had no choice in this because of what Intel had done, but I'm not finding those again now. I *do* find multiple statements that Intel is dropping all BIOS support from its UEFI firmwares (including, presumably, those it creates with / for its motherboa

Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine

On Thu, 2021-01-14 at 11:15 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: [...] > Newer-model Intel chipsets specifically prohibit booting to internal > hard drives in "legacy boot" mode. Surely it isn't the chipset which determines what disk format you can boot from, it's the firmware.

Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine

On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:26:26 + Alain D D Williams wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 04:41:50PM +0100, Jesper Dybdal wrote: > > I backup my Buster server simply as a (compressed, encrypted) cpio > > archive. > > > > Restoring it to a BIOS-based machine

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