Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote 1 hour ago: #48
Based on the description of how the problem arises - Ubuntu 17.10 installed on
a system booted in legacy mode, not in UEFI mode.
The problem appeared to me in UEFI mode, not Legacy.
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Okay, I'm "unbricked" now as I can finally boot up my system but BIOS is
still corrupted.
I've instaled a new hard drive, with the help of a PXE environment I've
set up partitions so that matches my old drive configuration and
overriden the ESP UUID to the old drive UUID with gdisk and finally
ins
Workaround for reference to install Windows with the broken BIOS.
If you try to install through PXE Windows you'll see that it errors when
trying to bcdedit the entry to BIOS and the process fails.
A nasty workaround that works is:
- Create a raw Virtual Disk that points to the physical drive
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#275 #276 I reinstalled operating systems on the hdd with another
computer and recreated the partition table ids to mock bios but it
didn't unlock it in any way.
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My Lenovo G50-80 is also fixed by updating to 4.14.9. I've updated the
Bug Description so anyone facing the issue can repair their devices.
** Description changed:
- SRU Justification
+ Description: An update to linux kernel on Ubuntu 17.10 that enabled the
+ intel-spi-* drivers made Insyde BIOS
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