The original ‘SeaBios’ BIOS on my Acer c720p was a little clunky, so I decided to make the plunge and update it to a ‘proper’ Linux-friendly BIOS.. \u00a0\u00a0 There is a known\/good one available, but it is UEFI-only, so will involve changing the filesystem\/partition layout on an existing system..<\/p>\n
Disk \/dev\/sda: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors<\/span><\/strong>\r\nUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes<\/span><\/strong>\r\nSector size (logical\/physical): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes<\/span><\/strong>\r\nI\/O size (minimum\/optimal): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes<\/span><\/strong>\r\nDisklabel type: gpt<\/span><\/strong>\r\nDisk identifier: 245453FD-909E-4796-8A0E-1ABD9BB499DB<\/span><\/strong>\r\nDevice Start End Sectors Size Type<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\/dev\/sda1 2048 309247 307200 150M EFI System<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\/dev\/sda2 309248 250066943 249757696 119.1G Linux filesystem<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\nMore details are here:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/chrultrabook\/comments\/4t8kd5\/flashing_script_for_uefi_available<\/a><\/p>\nTo be on the safe side, I downloaded the top-level install script onto a usb ‘recovery’ stick beforehand, and made sure that network support was enabled..\u00a0 The direct link to the script is at:\u00a0 https:\/\/coolstar.org\/chromebook\/setup-firmware.sh<\/a><\/p>\nAs usual, this is not for the faint-of-heart, as you can brick your system!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The script does include the option to backup the ‘old’ bios, and this is always recommended..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It recognised my system and model correctly, and everything went smoothly..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I decided to just do a clean (re)install of the KDE Spin of Fedora 26 from a USB stick, and this also went OK..<\/p>\n
# uname -a<\/strong><\/span>\r\nLinux rg720 4.13.0-rc4 #1 SMP Thu Aug 10 17:45:38 PDT 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linux<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\nRobert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 August 11, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The original ‘SeaBios’ BIOS on my Acer c720p was a little clunky, so I decided to make the plunge and update it to a ‘proper’ Linux-friendly BIOS.. \u00a0\u00a0 There is a known\/good one available, but it is UEFI-only, so will involve changing the filesystem\/partition layout on an existing system.. Disk \/dev\/sda: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1280,1590,1298,1323,15,1160,1324],"tags":[1658,1657,154,468,242,1659,1660,1175,1162],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boot","category-chromebook","category-hardware","category-intel","category-linux-2","category-uefi","category-x86_64","tag-c720p","tag-chromebook","tag-fedora-2","tag-install","tag-linux","tag-new-bios","tag-reformat","tag-success","tag-uefi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}