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.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    Correct - but the next thing I was going to suggest, you can extract the EXE i believe, if you peruse the archwiki link.

    It might be an exe you could run in FreeDOS, or you could extract the actual firmware file and install with another tool

    • gpstarmanOP
      32·
      4 months ago

      you can extract the EXE i believe

      Yes, that’s possible.

      But, I am scared about screwing uy BIOS.

      • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        That is always a risk when updating a bios!

        Depending on the motherboard (I think its more on desktop mobos) you get two bios chips, one used to recover from a bad flash of the other

        edit it could also be the case there hasn’t been a bios update released

        • gpstarmanOP
          3·
          4 months ago

          There is a new BIOS update. But I think I’m just gonna leave it at this point.

          • TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 months ago

            You might as well try. Had a similar issue with Samsung SSD, where they only had support for windows with a .exe, but which created a small Linux system that was installed in the UEFI boot position. So I searched for the Linux executable in the middle of all that mess and executed it directly. Problem solved.