Dear Colleagues. TL;DR - there is hope! I've been approached by Anthony from Canonical and later Brian from Lenovo. We have agreed I will send my Laptop to Lenovo for investigations. So I wanted to prepare fresh system (clean my personal data, naturally). After making the hacks and changes I did reboot to BIOS to make last good-bye photo of the error screen. And to my surprise, there was none!
My system/BIOS is revived. But I cannot tell definitely, what is the root of unlocking it. I'm willing to describe the procedure I think led to recovering it but I prefer to share it with one or two capable people, to prove it is working. If it does the trick I will post it here. Since my laptop is no longer affected I cannot work on a simple(r) solution therefore I need at least two volunteers. What is the risk - none, if you won't mistake console parameters. What is required: - laptop with the no BIOS save issue and fully operational LINUX system - second hard drive (not USB but the SATA disc!!) - readiness to use screwdriver to open your laptop That's it. Please PM me and tell me how skillful you consider yourself with Linux console tools. I will write the step by step guide in response, bit chaotic because I did it by accident and don't know, what would be the shortest way to achieve it. If you don't have working Linux, don't know too well how to use console - please WAIT until we confirm the solution. I don't have time, patience etc. to hand-hold everyone. (bit bitter but experienced strange stories after posting my rEFInd workaround!). Anyway. Hope over the weekend we will have solution to some of you! Marcin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734147 Title: Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS - many LENOVO laptops models To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1734147/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
