Removing The BIOS Administrator Password On A ThinkPad Takes Timing

In the olden days, an administrator password on a BIOS was a mere annoyance, one quickly remedied by powering off the system and pulling its CMOS battery or moving a jumper around. These days, you&…

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Sieht nicht schlecht aus. Wie ist der Preis ?
Wie lange arbeitet Ihr damit und seid Ihr zufrieden ?

Allerdings benötigen wir #Dual_nvme nicht #intern, sondern #extern als #SteckVersion.

Das haben wir leider noch nirgends gefunden. Und zwar DIREKT zum #Mainboard-Bus und möglichst
nicht über den Umweg #USB, was die Geschwindigkeit deutlich verringert.

Haben heute zum ersten Mal etwas von #Coreboot & Co. als #OpenSoftware #BIOS-Ersatz gelesen.
Habt Ihr #Erfahrung damit ?

Wir arbeiten z.Zt. mit Lenovo-ThinkCentre. Ist ganz gut, aber auch gebraucht sehr teuer.

Plus #nvme-#Umbausatz !! Wir sind sehr knapp bei Kasse und müssen manches zurückstellen, was wir eigentlich gern umgesetzt hätten.

How can I solve the “cryptsetup: Waiting for encrypted source device UUID=” problem on an MSI Cyborg 15 A13VF-1461 laptop? #boot #encryption #bios #luks #msi

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How can I solve the “cryptsetup: Waiting for encrypted source device UUID=<personal-UUID>” problem on an MSI Cyborg 15 A13VF-1461 laptop?

Since today, I have a cryptsetup: Waiting for encrypted source device UUID=<personal-UUID> boot problem with my MSI Cyborg 15 A13VF-1461 laptop. It has a GRUB dual-boot system installed (Ubun...

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So people, if you want to launch new federated website, there is some idea.

- Ads filtering list.
- Linux package build (for generating binary)
- Bios Database
- Secureboot shim
- Search engine.

Those 5 idea would allow to agregate data / build power from all over the world, allowing to a fully decentralised, and impossible to down system, as blocking node would not disable the system.

#sovereinty #linux #ads #federation #fediverse #foss #security #privacy #uefi #bios #secureboot #search #eu

Yesterday was quite the day! My replacement #Dell battery arrived. Opened the #laptop, swapped the battery, powered it on. It booted up but failed to recognize my SSD and thus I couldn't boot into the OS. Strange.

#BIOS showed there wasn't a battery connected. Also strange. As per Dell's documentation, I needed to completely clear the power. Did that.

Still no disk recognized. BIOS still showed I can only boot from the NIC. Great. I found the BIOS version was severely out of date by 5-6 years. Downloaded the new firmware and flashed it successfully. The laptop *still* doesn't recognize the SSD....but does recognize I have a new battery. I guess that's an improvement.

Interestingly, while using the BIOS flash tool, the laptop can see part of the SSD as I was able to see part of Debian's /boot partition.

Never in my life did I ever expect replacing a laptop battery would cause me this much pain.

Dell Latitude 5400.

How do I get the BIOS to recognize my SSD?

#help #troubleshooting

Reading the Intel Management Engine (ME) fails and can't update BIOS #updates #intel #thinkpad #bios #firmware

https://askubuntu.com/q/1563836/612

Reading the Intel Management Engine (ME) fails and can't update BIOS

I know it has been asked a few times already, but the solutions I found don't seem to work. A few months ago my computer (ThinkPad t14 gen 2, running Ubuntu 24.0 4 iirc) crashed or something when b...

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Reading ME fails and can't update BIOS

I know it has been asked a few times already but the solutions I found can't seem to work. A few months ago my computer (thinkpad t14 gen 2, running ubuntu 24.0 iirc) crashed or something when boot...

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