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
#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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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
-
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
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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@Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre Yes, I have two issues:
1) BIOS Doesn't work fine. Same problem as @bruno USB Boot doesn't work,
DVD boot doesn't work and saving bios settings are lost of exit and
save. No white screen just the changes don't persist across reboots.
2) The hard drive failed leaving
Status update: Attempt to install Windows over PXE won't work.
The BIOS is really derped. The error of Windows Installer is: "Windows
could not update the computer's boot configuration. Installation cannot
proceed.".
I'm out of ideas...
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@Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)
@Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)
My Lenovo G50-80 was running a Ubuntu 17.10 with no dualboot. The BIOS
didn't allow me to change ANY of the options and USB/DVD boot did not
work for a few weeks or maybe months (I don't check BIOS every day).
Also it seems that
This is unacceptable, right now my Lenovo G50-80 is a brick.
USB Boot does not work.
DVD Boot does not work.
BIOS Boot menu doesn't autodetect changes on the hard drive EFI paths.
And during an update grub stopped working, it reported a syscall error
of I/O and on reboot I couldn't start the
This is unacceptable, right now my Lenovo G50-80 is a brick.
USB Boot does not work.
DVD Boot does not work.
BIOS Boot menu doesn't autodetect changes on the hard drive EFI paths.
And during an update grub stopped working, it reported a syscall error
of I/O and on reboot I couldn't start the
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