1 device has a firmware upgrade available....

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 06:29:34 UTC 2021


On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 19:34:26 +0200, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

>When I logged on to my newly installed and fully upgraded Ubuntu Server 20.04.3
>LTS I was greeted by the following message:
>
>------
>1 device has a firmware upgrade available.
>Run `fwupdmgr get-upgrades` for more information.
>
>0 updates can be applied immediately.
>
>Last login: Wed Oct 20 21:15:59 2021 from 192.168.119.236
>------
>
>So I ran this command:
>
>bosse at ubuntuserv:~$ fwupdmgr get-upgrades
>WARNING: UEFI firmware can not be updated in legacy BIOS mode
>  See https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/wiki/PluginFlag:legacy-bios for more
>information.
>90MV007HMW
>¦
>+-SAMSUNG MZALQ512HALU-000L1:
>  ¦   Device ID:          71b677ca0f1bc2c5b804fa1d59e52064ce589293
>  ¦   Summary:            NVM Express Solid State Drive
>  ¦   Current version:    BL1QFXV7
>  ¦   Vendor:             Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (NVME:0x144D)
> 
>And then it goes on for a page or so...
>
>What am I supposed to do here?
>
>I am multi-booting this PC between Windows 10, Ubuntu desktop 20.04.3, which I
>installed from an USB drive and Ubuntu server 20.04.3 which I migrated from an
>11 years old PC a few days back. It was 18.04 then but I did a release-upgrade
>once it ran on the new PC.
>
>The hardware is a Lenovo Ideacentre 3 07ADA05 mini-PC and it came with Windows
>10, which is still remaining, I have just shrunk the Windows partition a lot to
>make space for the Ubuntu transfer from the older PC.
>I can still boot into Windows if needed.
>
>It seems like the main drive, a Samsung SSD is what is in need of a f/w upgrade,
>can this be done from Windows too and in that case does anyone here know how?
>

Does anyone here have a clue as to what this "WARNING" means?
Can the f/w be updated from Linux or not?
If not what is the proper procedure to do the update?


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden





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