As a lifelong Windows user I’ve just for the first time switched to Ubuntu and I’m learning how to navigate the system but I haven’t found an easy way to update my Carbon’s X1 Gen 6 BIOS from its hard disk and would appreciate any advice.

I’d be also happy to hear what I should do as a newcomer to Ubuntu to make my experience with it better and have an easier time overall.

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    2 months ago

    Honestly, given how annoying the alternatives are, I would say just buy a USB drive and put the bios file on there. You can get very good ones for under $20 and almost free ones if you don’t mind having an old tiny one.

    • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      This is the real answer. In this day and age where a 16gb USB stick can be had for literally $5usd on Amazon, it would be silly not to have a few kicking around. I don’t think any Linux distro live environment media requires more than 16gb, and it’s more than enough for updating a bios. I even used one to update the infotainment system in my vehicle last week. Kind of a necessary tool.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 months ago

        Even if you need one immediately and can’t wait on Amazon, it’s back to school season. They are plentiful everywhere. Target, Walmart, Kroger, Staples, Office Depot, etc. etc. etc.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    I just did this for the motherboard on my desktop PC (thanks Intel and your CPU update!) and it requires a clean boot device of some kind to boot into UEFI. It has nothing to do with the OS of the device.

    In my case, yeah, I did it from a thumb drive, but I could see making a boot CD that has the bios files on it as well.

    OTOH if you have the capability of burning and booting a boot CD it’s probably way easier to just use a thumb drive.

    One thing I’ll note, on my motherboard, only using the keyboard to navigate the UEFI menu failed to update. :( I had to connect a physical mouse to run the menus.

  • dukatos@lemm.ee
    3·
    2 months ago

    Copy bios image to uefi partition and try to open it when in bios, if there is flasher in it.