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by photonthug 406 days ago
I can confirm there's real wisdom in this approach, lol. Nothing bad had happened to me for a while so I decided to update that one computer to ubuntu noble and YUP, immediately bricked by some UEFI problem. Ok cool, it's not like 2004 anymore, this will probably be a quick fix.. 3 hours later...
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RadiozRadioz 406 days ago
An OS upgrade broke UEFI. Huh? That doesn't sound right.
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photonthug 406 days ago
In the newest iteration of a time-honored tradition, grub (and/or whatever distro's treatment of it) has been finding all kinds of ways to break upgrades for 30 years. If you're on the happy path you can probably go a long time without a problem.

But when you're the unlucky one and need to search for a fix, and you're checking hardware/distro/date details in whatever forums or posts, and that's when you notice that the problems don't actually ever stop.. it just hasn't happened to you lately.

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RadiozRadioz 406 days ago
No that's not what I mean, I mean technologically, UEFI is flashed in your motherboard and there isn't any way for an OS to mess with that. You need to boot from a specially prepared USB with compatible firmware in order to change it. Your problem must have been above UEFI, or an error in your OS that mentioned UEFI.
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guappa 406 days ago
There have been buggy implementations where UEFI is in fact NOT flashed to the motherboard and can get removed.

If he has one of those crappy computers it could be, but when I read about it happening it was entirely due to users MANUALLY deleting the UEFI files, did not happen upgrading.

So, the story seems still wrong to me.

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