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Thank You.
My favorite way to update BIOS is with an SPI flasher and flashrom.
Vendor lock-in miscreants like Acer get wrecked. Try and stop me.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I presume from your tone that it is safe to do. Because, I don't wanna brick my UEFI.
I have saved bricked systems with this flashing tool. Just backup whatever is already on the BIOS chip with
flashrom --programmer model_name -r /path/to/backup.bin
before proceeding, so that it can be copied back over if anything goes wrong.
Thank you. This is so cool.
This is a large part of why I try to buy hardware with coreboot support. Your best option is probably to get a cheap 2nd drive and have a Win install on it. I'm pretty sure you can run win 10 off a USB, that would probably work, just make sure you change the drive boot order in the BIOS for the update.
Thank You.
My Lenovo laptops running fedora get BIOS updates via dnf
Well, sucks to be me.
@gpstarman I only use Asus and Gigabyte boards, both have the ability to flash the BIOS using the maintenance engine on the board without even having a CPU or memory installed, let alone an OS booted.
What Acer board are you trying to update?