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Re:Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop by makaronin on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:23AM (#12548389)
One guy has done a nice work decompiling the BIOS and found that skipping over the hidden BIOS pages is hard-coded into the firmware. See this https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Installing-Ubu...
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Re:Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop by brokenmachine on Thursday September 22, 2016 @01:49AM (#12554689)
Can they not modify that BIOS code to not skip those pages?

I'm sure anyone with enough knowledge to decompile a BIOS would have obviously thought of that idea though. I'm guessing the BIOS images are signed or something?

Regardless, this smells evil to me...

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