Same situation: in my ACER ASPIRE ES1-111M-C1LE after installing ukuu I put linux v4.14.9 and v4.14.10: both don't solve my problems with the bios. my idea was to follow this guide to flash the bios: https://askubuntu.com/questions/144526/how-to-flash-a-bios-when-only-a-windows-binary-is-provided
I tried to make a backup of my bios with 'flashrom' and the result is: # sudo flashrom -p internal -r backup.rom -o backuplog.txt flashrom v0.9.9-r1954 on Linux 4.14.10-041410-generic (x86_64) flashrom is free software, get the source code at https://flashrom.org Calibrating delay loop... OK. No DMI table found. Found chipset "Intel Bay Trail". Enabling flash write... Warning: BIOS region SMM protection is enabled! Warning: Setting Bios Control at 0x0 from 0x22 to 0x01 failed. New value is 0x22. Warning: SPI Configuration Lockdown activated. FREG0: Warning: Flash Descriptor region (0x00000000-0x00000fff) is read-only. FREG2: Warning: Management Engine region (0x00001000-0x003fffff) is locked. Not all flash regions are freely accessible by flashrom. This is most likely due to an active ME. Please see https://flashrom.org/ME for details. PR0: Warning: 0x007e1000-0x007fffff is read-only. PR1: Warning: 0x005a6000-0x0076ffff is read-only. Writes have been disabled for safety reasons. You can enforce write support with the ich_spi_force programmer option, but you will most likely harm your hardware! If you force flashrom you will get no support if something breaks. On a few mainboards it is possible to enable write access by setting a jumper (see its documentation or the board itself). OK. Found Winbond flash chip "W25Q64.W" (8192 kB, SPI) mapped at physical address 0x00000000ff800000. Reading flash... Transaction error! Read operation failed! FAILED. -- 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/linux/+bug/1734147/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs