How to update BIOS on a system that only use Linux as OS.
Asking this because some clowns at Acer decided that they will only provide BIOS updates through Windows Update.
Edit: I’m not talking about installing the BIOS file. They don’t even provide BIOS file in the first place.
Is there an option to save the new bios update file to a USB stick, then enter bios and trigger an update manually that fetches the file from said USB stick?
I’ve done it this way with an Asrock motherboard for desktop running Bazzite.
They don’t even provide BIOS file in the first place.
Depends on the exact model. The usual way on Linux is via
fwupdmgr.I’m not talking about installing the BIOS file. They don’t even provide BIOS file in the first place.
Also, I don’t think fwupd has firmware for this particular laptop. ( Acer One 14 Z2-493 )
Try it out. I was often pleasantly surprised by the things provided by fwupd.
if the provide and exe, You can always create a bootable usb stick of freedos or another dos tool. Copy the file onto the stick. boot to it and cd to where the file is and issue filename.exe
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they don’t seem to be of much help.
Classic corporate tech forum behaviour.
If you can get your hands on the Windows Update, you can probably extract the BIOS
How?
I can’t find the exact model on their website, it seems like Acer produced this device as a low-cost deal specifically for the Indian market and decided to just… not support it?.
Which is very dumb.
update .exe
What .exe are talking about exactly? Is there some exe inside windows iso?
And idk what clevo is. Maybe a mass manufacturer of low quality computers (from my low effort search)
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Most BIOS updates come with a firmware file and a .exe to flash it
Sadly in my case, iy doesn’t.
how do you know they exist?
Sorry, I wrongly remembered. It’s my other laptop which has a new bios update.
Usually you can extract the windows updater exe and use the bios/bin/upd file via mainboard bios update mechanisms
They don’t even provide BIOS file in the first place. So no exe to extract.
Acer has had this policy for over 20 years. I bought a laptop long ago from a vendor that I had issues with and they refused to give me support because I was running Linux at the time. (I forget what distro. Probably either Mandrake or early Ubuntu.) That laptop went right back to the vendor.
Never bought anything from them since.
What a joke they are.
Thank You.
Acer supports 2 of their devices on Linux
Thank you. Sadly mine is different.
