Do I need a swap *partition* to use hibernation?

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 23:59:04 +0200, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
wrote:

>Great!
>
>Don't forget to back up the old one first, in case of problems.
>
>I hope it helps!

I have two old decommissioned HP laptops, the one I have discussed
here is the 8440w my wife used and which is repurposed as described.

And another is my last work notebook (Elitebook 8560w) which I am gong
to give my daughter.

Both have had their disks removed and now I face the BIOS update issue
probably on both.

So since the 8560w has not been fixed up with a new disk and operating
system yet I thought that I should try to update BIOS on that first.

After making an update USB for both I used the 8560w one on that
notebook but it totally failed to work as described by HP.

I inserted the USB drive and depressed the Win and B keys as described
while pressing power for 5-10 s. Nothing was shown on screen but the
system started the fan and lit up the capslock LED and then nothing at
all happened.

So given this I have not dared trying the USB for the 8440w yet. Don't
want to lose the carefully crafted Ubuntu system...

QUESTION 1:
Must there be a hard drive in the notebook when updating BIOS?
Since it should boot from the USB I thought not, but maybe???
In that case, must the drive contain a working operating system too?

QUESTION 2:
How do I back up the old BIOS?


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden