Re:The new MacBook Pros with T2 chips do indeed kernel panic...
by satysin on Saturday August 18, 2018 @05:57PM
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You checked the Windows Platform Binary Table in the BIOS/UEFI? That was how they delivered their crapware before. Even a clean install with your own media would inject a Lenovo exe into Windows directly from the BIOS with no way to disable it. Scary stuff.
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Re:The new MacBook Pros with T2 chips do indeed kernel panic...
by sofaofthedamned on Saturday August 18, 2018 @07:12PM
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Yup. Luckily i've got a friend who knows BIOS stuff like I could never do (Hi Greg) - nothing in there. Besides, it gets Fedora 28 installed and Windows is only used for doing firmware updates.
Which tbf Lenovo cocked up a couple of weeks ago and hosed the SSD firmware so it didn't boot. Luckily i'm not a moron so everything was backed up, they sent a new SSD and they picked up the old one to recover, which I assume will be a hardware firmware flash. I don't need the backup, but I am looking forward to Lenovo spending the money for the pickup/flash/delivery to make sure it costs them as much money as possible so they don't do this again.
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/943m9o/x1c6_ssd_f...