> Now please don't tell me to install a bios update until there's a decent way to install it seamlessly from Ubuntu itself, without relying on freedos, flashrom, creating a windows repair disk and whatnot.
If you expect bug victims -pardon- users to install bios updates in order to help you fix bugs, you should provide an easier way to install them.
Also, unless you have a strong reason to think that the issue is *caused* (*caused*, not just triggered) by a bug in the bios that has been fixed in the update (which I doubt), then testing it against the bios update should not be a requirement to investigate and fix the issue in Ubuntu.
I think you missed this part:
> Now please don't tell me to install a bios update until there's a decent way to install it seamlessly from Ubuntu itself, without relying on freedos, flashrom, creating a windows repair disk and whatnot.
If you expect bug victims -pardon- users to install bios updates in order to help you fix bugs, you should provide an easier way to install them.
Also, unless you have a strong reason to think that the issue is *caused* (*caused*, not just triggered) by a bug in the bios that has been fixed in the update (which I doubt), then testing it against the bios update should not be a requirement to investigate and fix the issue in Ubuntu.