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  1. Bug #1734147
  2. Comment #253

Comment 253 for bug 1734147

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1734147] Re: Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS - many LENOVO laptops models

On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 04:27:56AM -0000, Turbo wrote:
> My two cents would be -now that the ISO was pulled- that a warning with
> big red letters or something shows up when you do "sudo apt-get dist-
> upgrade". In my particular case I had no idea things were so wrong when
> I pressed the Enter key.

We have not done this because the kernel you get with a dist-upgrade is
/fixed/ to no longer trigger this issue. The problem only remains with the
kernel that was published in 17.10 at release time, which is on the ISOs.