Comment 123 for bug 1734147

Dear Colleagues.
TL;DR - there is hope!

I've been approached by Anthony from Canonical and later Brian from Lenovo. We have agreed I will send my Laptop to Lenovo for investigations. So I wanted to prepare fresh system (clean my personal data, naturally). After making the hacks and changes I did reboot to BIOS to make last good-bye photo of the error screen. And to my surprise, there was none!

My system/BIOS is revived. But I cannot tell definitely, what is the root of unlocking it.

I'm willing to describe the procedure I think led to recovering it but I prefer to share it with one or two capable people, to prove it is working. If it does the trick I will post it here. Since my laptop is no longer affected I cannot work on a simple(r) solution therefore I need at least two volunteers.

What is the risk - none, if you won't mistake console parameters.

What is required:

- laptop with the no BIOS save issue and fully operational LINUX system

- second hard drive (not USB but the SATA disc!!)

- readiness to use screwdriver to open your laptop

That's it.

Please PM me and tell me how skillful you consider yourself with Linux console tools. I will write the step by step guide in response, bit chaotic because I did it by accident and don't know, what would be the shortest way to achieve it.

If you don't have working Linux, don't know too well how to use console - please WAIT until we confirm the solution. I don't have time, patience etc. to hand-hold everyone. (bit bitter but experienced strange stories after posting my rEFInd workaround!).

Anyway.

Hope over the weekend we will have solution to some of you!

Marcin