Intel boot agent question

[Phil]

On 3/5/20 9:47 pm, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sun, 3 May 2020 at 11:15, Phil <phillor9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you for reading this.
>>
>> This question relates to a Lenevo ThinkPad T420.
> This works fine on my T420. It quadruple-boots Win10, Ubuntu, ZorinOS
> Lite and Deepin. I can reboot from any of them into any other.
>
> Update its firmware.
>
Thank you Liam for your reply.

I've used dual boot computers since the 90s, this problem has only 
occurred since I used Clonezilla to clone a SSD. If I had the original 
Windows I'd have started afresh. I really don't want to spend lots of 
money on Windows 10 just to update my Garmin navigator occasionally.

Updating the BIOS sounds like a good idea, and something that I had 
already tried. Lenevo Vantage is supposed to be easy to use but it's not 
easy to get hold of, one needs a Microsoft account. I wasn't happy about 
setting one up but I went through the rigmarole but was stumped when I 
needed to insert a code that was sent to me via e-mail; I don't have 
e-mail set up under Windows.

So I tried fwupd under Linux but nothing happened. These are the steps 
that I used:

sudo service fwupd start
sudo fwupdmgr refresh
fwupdmgr get-devices
sudo fwupdmgr update
    
Get-devices showed information mostly relating the SSD, there was no mention of the BIOS
and update didn't seem to do anything.

I cannot find any other method of updating the BIOS that looks safe and won't cause me
further problems. How have you updated the BIOS?

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Regards,
Phil