Ubuntu 17.10 corrupts BIOS, bricks some Lenovo + Acer notebook models

sml156 said:

Linux Mint is probably in the same boat too.

Nope, Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu 16.04, the stable release hence possibly not affected.

lx07 said:

Not that semantics helps if the solution is to replace the chip of course.

I read one guy replaced his motherboard not once but twice

sml156 said:

Ubuntu is based on Debian, So my guess is if you installed it on a vulnerable machine it would probably hose the BIOS Linux Mint is probably in the same boat too. But as you said your using a Pi so your good.

You still use "apt-get" I guess the Pi foundation has not updated apt yet
I use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS minimal server and use

Code:

sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade

They call it prettified apt-get

I run the Raspberry Pi Desktop (for PC and Mac) on my spare desktop. Basically an x86 version of Debian with the Raspberry Pi desktop. Same look and fell as Raspbian on my Pi. Some other odds and ends added too. I can connect a Raspberry Pi Zero via USB and use that Pi's GPIO Pins to do things.

Anyway, its an old ASUS motherboard so I guess I'm safe. I'll have to go poke around the Pi Foundation forums and see what's up.

cereberus said:

I thought bugs only existed in Windows 10 according to Linuxians and Sevenists .

Canonical (Ubuntu) and Microsoft (W8) operating systems both went into decline in 2012.
They haven't recovered.

lx07 said:

That makes no sense. He got a new BIOS chip.

Are you (is he) saying if you ever installed 17.10 then every computer you buy in the future will be affected? How?

I would think its more like, got new motherboard, reinstalled Ubuntu, did the update, bricked second motherboard.

alphanumeric said:

I would think its more like, got new motherboard, reinstalled Ubuntu, did the update, bricked second motherboard.

That's what I thought too when I read his post on The Ubuntu forum, He probably lacked the skill to remove (desoder) the BIOS chip.

This could not happen with Legacy BIOS, I don't believe.