#LENOVO CRITICAL UPDATES STUCK NIOS UPDATE#

Here's how the update worked out for me on my T14s AMD (secure boot and OS defaults disabled in BIOS): In the end I think I got lucky but I'm not entirely sure. I wish I had read this report before attempting the update. Given the issues and complaints, e.g., discussed at, it seems that they are completely overwhelmed. Incidentally, after 10 years with DELL, where I never had any problems with firmware updates on Linux machines, I am really disappointed with the crap that Lenovo's firmware team provides. This is interesting news, thank you, which is not obvious from the notes provided by Lenovo via LVFS.

whatever went wrong there, from what I saw during the update and from what the OP wrote, the problem likely occurred long before the forced reboot. I neither saw stretched text, not did it take 30 minutes before that progress screen appeared. The OP reported stretched words and waiting for ~30 min. but then the fans spun up and some sort of status screen with progress info appeared. So that might be the difference between people who successfully update and those who don't.Īlso: The screen stayed dark for quite some time for me as well so long, that I got worried. I am not sure that I had that box checked before trying the fwupd update. The description inside the official image is somewhat more comprehensive (it also contains the line i quoted in my previous post didn't realize it was from there) and explains that before resetting to defaults, the 'Enable OS specific defaults' option must be enabled. (Take what you think is helpful and ignore the rest.)įWIW: I installed the update using a bootable stick (geteltorito workflow) and that worked with secure boot disabled (so at least for p14s it's not an incompatibility issue per se). I'd definitely feel better if I had some knowledge about whether what I was seeing and doing is expected or not. Then please reboot' (or possibly 'WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T REBOOT'). For instance: 'You will see a black screen with the word Reboot.

In the same vein: Please outline what the update should look like.

#LENOVO CRITICAL UPDATES STUCK NIOS SOFTWARE#

Just enabling Update support from user software (or whatever the 'Allow Windows to update UEFI' menu entry is called) led to the behavior described above. Resetting during the update just messed up my EFI vars and I had to rest them from a live environment. I cannot reset to factory defaults because my system won't boot (secure boot) and I can't apply the update w/o running my OS. No idea what DMAr is (or if that's another typo) but I don't find anything meaningful. It says (SIC) 'In case user update the UEFI BIOS v1.32 (R1bET63W), need to load default configuration in BIOS setup.(for enable DMAr function support).'

The hint before applying the update was clearer.

Never been so happy to see the grub boot menu.īut I don't dare to try again after reading this here. i power cycled eventually (with a very bad feeling in my gut) and crossed my fingers.

then blackness again with no end in sight.

black screen, followed after some secs by the word 'Reboot' or 'restart' (not quite sure which).

some rebooting (not sure, but I think it was twice).

My P14s Gen 1 (AMD) is not bricked, but it's not updating either.

Lenovo critical updates stuck nios