Re: [tlug] BIOS / Video Problems

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Furkan Mustafa <furkan@example.com> wrote:
> On 2018-03-06 14:23, CL wrote:
>> The somewhat embarrassing truth is that THIS was the working system I
>> was testing ANOTHER system's parts on.  The problems started after I
>> tested the boot SSD from the box I was trying to get working properly.
>>  Never got further than that.
>
> I feel like this might be related?
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1734147
> https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/12/ubuntu-corrupting-lenovo-laptop-bios
>
> The issue mentions Lenovo laptops, but it probably effects many EFI
> BIOSes.


FWIW, I did read about this a while ago and according to one source,
such as this web site
(http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=135661), Intel SPI
configurations is set to "N" on Debian systems.  (Does anyone who know
better can confirm this?  I actually don't know what it means...)  So
it is possibly not relevant to CL's problem mentioned here.  I don't
know if the Debian kernel that's being used is an exception to this,
though.

I'm on Ubuntu, but not on any of the models mentioned.  So I ran
Ubuntu 17.10 successfully on several computers.

Ray