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Fwd: BIOS zapping bug: Ubuntu 17.10 / *buntu 17.10



FYI:

----- Forwarded message from Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu -----
    Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 14:40:40 -0800
    From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu>
 Subject: BIOS zapping bug: Ubuntu 17.10 / *buntu 17.10
      To: BALUG-Talk <balug-talk@lists.balug.org>

Generally not advised to install Ubuntu 17.10 presently, at least on certain hardware. There's a nasty bug that causes serious problems with BIOS (as
in prevents ability to boot from USB or alter BIOS settings).

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/21/ubuntu_lenovo_bios/
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/17/12/20/1724244/ubuntu-1710-temporarily-pulled-due-to-a-bios-corrupting-problem
etc.

Canonical apparently plans to re-release 17.10 (hopefully with a distinguishing point version number?) after this issue is corrected.


----- End forwarded message -----

Also more on the BALUG-Talk and SF-LUG lists, among others:
https://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk/2017-December/date.html
http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2017q4/date.html

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