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?
You can’t natively load the .fd from the bios screen?
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/update-lenovo-bios-from-linux-usb-stick-pen/
nope
That really sucks. Good to know. I was thinking about getting a yoga but now I know to avoid. Hope the windows live disk works, be careful about it nuking your grub install.
I’m assuming you’ve already seen how to update without installing windows using the windows PE
https://community.frame.work/t/howto-update-bios-using-winpe-until-lvfs-support-arrives/11243
Nothing wrong with the laptop. Everything works fine under Linux, it’s just that I’ve decided to update BIOS and had no idea I’ll run into this wall but otherwise I had great experience with Yoga.
Good to know. Thanks for the reply. However you and I agree that BIOS updates are important.