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What's the easiest way to update bios on my Ubuntu laptop without a USB? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As a lifelong Windows user I've just for the first time switched to Ubuntu and I'm learning how to navigate the system but I haven't found an easy way to update my Carbon's X1 Gen 6 BIOS from its hard disk and would appreciate any advice.

I'd be also happy to hear what I should do as a newcomer to Ubuntu to make my experience with it better and have an easier time overall.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I just did this for the motherboard on my desktop PC (thanks Intel and your CPU update!) and it requires a clean boot device of some kind to boot into UEFI. It has nothing to do with the OS of the device.

In my case, yeah, I did it from a thumb drive, but I could see making a boot CD that has the bios files on it as well.

OTOH if you have the capability of burning and booting a boot CD it's probably way easier to just use a thumb drive.

One thing I'll note, on my motherboard, only using the keyboard to navigate the UEFI menu failed to update. :( I had to connect a physical mouse to run the menus.