EDIT - UPDATE: Booting live Windows11 USB has worked and BIOS has been updated (but holy cow, Linux live USB feels like it’s running on SSD while Windows live USB feels like it’s running from floppy disk)

Hi, I have a Yoga Slim 6 14APU8 - Type 82X3 laptop with Fedora Workstation 41 and I’ve tried to go and update my BIOS but unfortunately they only offer the .exe file to do it from within Windows. I don’t want to install Windows just to update my BIOS. I honestly though it will be a matter of few minutes by me just copying the BIOS file on a USB drive and then installing it directly from within BIOS as usual on other devices…

I’ve tried the sudo fwupdmgr update command but it just says that there is nothing that can be updated.

My current BIOS version is M4CN30WW and the new one is M4CN36WW.

I’ve tried searching for how to do this and I’ve found multiple guides using geteltorito but they all say to download the .iso and not the .exe version of the BIOS file but I can’t find the .iso version anywhere on their website, or am I just blind or is there some other way to do this?

  • @[email protected]
    6•2 days ago

    You could try enabling the lvfs test-repo

    sudo fwupdmgr enable-remote lvfs-testing

    And the run

    sudo fwupdmgr update

    • @WereCatOP
      3•2 days ago

      That may work but I feel like it can cause me heap of other issues. I’ll leave this as a last resort for now.

      • @[email protected]
        6•2 days ago

        So you can enable it and then run:

        sudo fwupdmgr get-updates

        And you will get a list of what would be updated with the testing repo, and then you can disable it again if it doesn’t return a result that one can work with.