Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS of many Lenovo laptop models

Re:Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS of many Lenovo laptop models by tcfunk on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @12:15PM (#15971537)

My XPS 13 Developer edition had something similar happen to it shortly after upgrading to 17.10. However I think this was circumstance, and that the real culprit was a bad BIOS update from Dell which removed all entries from the boot list (or something to that effect).

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Re:Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS of many Lenovo laptop models by wakeywakeywakey on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @01:07PM (#15972096)

What did you do to recover?

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Re:Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS of many Lenovo laptop models by owaislone on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:29PM (#15972885)

I had the exact same issue on 17.10 + XPS 13 + Dell firmware update. I booted in the BIOS setup and manually pointed the EFI to ubuntu's grub's EFI file. That immediately fixed the problem.

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Re:Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS of many Lenovo laptop models by cevn on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @01:58PM (#15972599)

(not the parent, but I had the same laptop with the same problem) I reinstalled Fedora. I could have probably recovered the grub bootloader manually, but I wasn't really keen on sitting there for a few hours. All my data was backed up anyway.

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Re:Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS of many Lenovo laptop models by wakeywakeywakey on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:09PM (#15972708)

It still allowed you to boot from USB? How do you recover if you lose that option (other than sending in your laptop to be reflashed)?

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