[Discuss] Risks of BIOS (actually UEFI) updates

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2018-11-10 23:32-0500 Daniel AJ Sokolov wrote:

> A problem I have heard of is that a BIOS update somehow ruins GRUB or
> something like that.
>
> The machine will start, but it won't recognize your encrypted hard drive
> as a boot drive. I'm unaware of a fix.

I don't use encrypted hard drives.  But just in case there are other
inconsistency troubles with an updated UEFI, it appears
<https://askubuntu.com/questions/831216/how-can-i-reinstall-grub-to-the-efi-partition>
is a pretty good reference for how to make grub consistent with your
UEFI.

Alan

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