Comment 198 for bug 1040557

Did you try to update Samsung provided BIOS from within Windows first?

Rumour has it that Samsung released an updated BIOS that has this issue
ironed out. (And yes, there indeed have been two or three BIOS updates from
Samsung on my sister's presumably affected laptop since I am following this
thread.) In this case it should be safe to run any version of Ubuntu or
Windows on your laptop. Until the fix is there, I'm afraid no one is 100 %
safe.

However, beware that NO ONE has yet confirmed that the fix has actually
been released. Samsung do not bother to provide changelogs or make a
one-liner public announcement. Neither do Ubuntu/Canonical who, if I
understand Steve correctly, have been previously communicating Samsung devs
concerning the issue.

That is why I still have not installed Ubuntu for my sister on that laptop,
not worth the risk. Even though she had been running it as her sole OS
since 2005. Not anymore, thanks to the obscure PR.

I am afraid this is a social bug too.

2013/5/25 frantoms <email address hidden>

> Hello keghn,
>
> I try to install ubuntu 12.10 and it bricked my laptop.
>
> I'm looking for a way to install add run ubuntu without any problem. but I
> didn't found it yet.
> How do you install you ubuntu 12.04.1? Do you have SSD?
>
> Regards!
>
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