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Guide for flashing/updating bios on Acer laptop using Linux?

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I’m a real newbie here that needs help. I have an Acer 4820T laptop. I’m looking for help on flashing/updating my bios through ubuntu 11.10. as the battery isn’t being recognised at all. I don’t have windows anymore so I can’t do it through that unfortunately. Would any1 have a step by step for it? I would really appreciate it. Thanks

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Originally Posted by gaz2011

Hi,
I’m a real newbie here that needs help. I have an Acer 4820T laptop. I’m looking for help on flashing/updating my bios through ubuntu 11.10. as the battery isn’t being recognised at all. I don’t have windows anymore so I can’t do it through that unfortunately. Would any1 have a step by step for it? I would really appreciate it. Thanks

If you can get an actual BIOS image file then there are utilities in Synaptic that might work, but you could wreck your machine in the process.

Unfortunately a lot of vendors these days only seem to support Windows for this sort of thing.

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Re: Guide for flashing/updating bios on Acer laptop using Linux?

If it was a phoenix or ami bios it’s doable, but the Acer Timeline’s use an InsydeH20 and there isn’t a linux installer. You’ll need to download the latest bios from acer and do the following to install from a usb flash drive:

1. If not already installed, you need gparted and unetbootin

sudo apt-get install gparted unetbootin

2. Use gparted to create a single FAT16 formatted partition on the flash drive.

3. Use unetbootin to install a bootable FreeDOS onto the flash drive:

• Select the distribution FreeDOS.
• Select your USB flash drive
• Click OK. This will download FreeDOS to create a DOS bootable flash drive.

4. Copy your motherboard’s BIOS update (Inside of the DOS directory for your acer BIOS) into the root of flash drive. These files will be located in B: or C: drive when you boot into FreeDOS.

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Re: Guide for flashing/updating bios on Acer laptop using Linux?

Originally Posted by xyzzyman

If it was a phoenix or ami bios it’s doable, but the Acer Timeline’s use an InsydeH20 and there isn’t a linux installer. You’ll need to download the latest bios from acer and do the following to install from a usb flash drive:

1. If not already installed, you need gparted and unetbootin

sudo apt-get install gparted unetbootin

2. Use gparted to create a single FAT16 formatted partition on the flash drive.

3. Use unetbootin to install a bootable FreeDOS onto the flash drive:

• Select the distribution FreeDOS.
• Select your USB flash drive
• Click OK. This will download FreeDOS to create a DOS bootable flash drive.

4. Copy your motherboard’s BIOS update (Inside of the DOS directory for your acer BIOS) into the root of flash drive. These files will be located in B: or C: drive when you boot into FreeDOS.

Thanks for reply. I have a mini usb stick that is already FAT32. Can I use it as it is or do I have to change it to FAT16? Not sure how to change it to be honest.
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well yes because often Bios updates are in the form of a windows file format that fits onto a floppy drive. Being that way, you’d have to format a flash drive by mounting it first, so that the file type could fit onto the floppy. It totally depends on your mobo and whether or not bios updates have been made for it, with windows some updates can just download, install, and then when you reboot the Bios is updated. Obviously in some cases you can revert to old bios settings if an update messes something up.

But first and foremost I’d have to say that advice is correct, these updates are made to apply through windows. Although obviously windows has nothing to do with bios settings, because bios is basic input output system. Maybe DRIVERS for bios is windows based, but bios loads before a drive is booted to mount an OS. I’m not sure but yes I suppose putting the update on a usb and booting to it would work. I don’t see how the update being made for windows would effect that. But then if a senior forum member said it would, I’d take his advice. Although I personally couldn’t image that, but once again:

look for an update for your bios:

1) if it’s in a rom or what not file it’s made for a floppy

2) if it’s made to install through the already loaded gui on the OS then it’s made to over write the bios lock from the gui, change the settings from windows, then when you reboot it sets the bios update. So how would you boot to the update?

Either way I only ASSUME a rom file or what not can be installed to a flash drive then booted to. But first thing you need to find out if bios updates are available for your mobo. And sometimes they are made available through 3rd party sites and not the manufacturer

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Nitro AN515-57 how do I update the bios and I’m running linux

how do i update the bios if im running linux and the bios file is a .exe file ?

Laptop System: Acer product: Nitro AN515-57 v: V1.10

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fdisk /dev/sda (fdisk version should be higher or equal to 2.23 to support GPT) press g to create GPT partition table press n to create partition (press ENTER three times). press t and 1 to select partition type as EFI System press w to write changes format partition to FAT32 mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/sda1

Now you need a bootable live windows iso. Copy all its content to /mnt. efi directory should be in a root of falsh drive. Copy bios executable file downloaded from acer web site to flash drive somewhere. (I used another one flash drive with this file to access in a booted windows live. Reboot and press F12 to access UEFI menu and select your flash drive. When windows boots just execute bios executable and wait. Tested on AN515-58 (Acer Nitro 5). Updated from 1.03 to 1.11

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How do I update my BIOS on a GNU/Linux machine? Aspire A515-51 V1.17

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I run Arch Linux on an Aspire A515-51 V1.17 . The laptop came with Ubuntu pre installed, so there should be a way of updating the BIOS without Windows. But I have no idea how, and would like some assistance.

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seriously, if you really must update the bios, then download win10 .iso, install it (it’ll install, it just won’t activate), update your bios then reinstall Arch. Safest way — alternatively, risk bricking it.

Are you sure the company doesn’t have firmware support for the OS they shipped? I bought the laptop because it came with Ubuntu preinstalled. I’m perfectly fine installing Ubuntu to do the update. But Windows is out of the question.

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@batmalin Thanks for the reply. Could you elaborate a little bit on this tool? Where can I download it? A Google search turns up next to nothing, and the downloads I did find are from sketchy sites. Also, this appears to be proprietary software with little popularity. Updating my firmware with such software would be a foolish thing to do unless you can assure me of it’s safety.

Search in the BIOS mod forums. This tool is from Insyde the company who makes the BIOS for Acer and many more, I dind`t used it as I have CH341A programmer.

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HOW TO UPDATE BIOS ON MY LINUX ACER MACHINE. ANY OFFICIAL SOFTWARE FOR LINUX .

Acer does not provide support for Linux systems in this series, only for Windows 10.
For several years now, Bios updates are only available via .EXE files and no longer under FlashBios.

The question is, does your device really need any Bios update?

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there are lot of Linux laptop provide by Acer so it’s their responsibility to provide an update. yes I need an update because of its bios is very old

Acer’s question of providing a device with whatever operating system does not require Acer to support any system.
Each user is free to use the system they like best.
When the user agrees to the license, he is aware of it.
The issue of updating refers more to knowledge than to Acer itself.
You can simply update the micro-codes in the shell or use FreeDOS on a bootable flash drive.

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