Hi,
I am planning to update our motherboard, MSI PRO B650-S WIFI.
Before proceeding I decided to ask what is the best way to do this with Ubuntu. Instructions are for windows and I prefer to first ask and only then act.
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/PRO-B650-S-WIFI/support
7E26v1M6.zip downloaded.
Thank you for support!
Instructions are for Windows (…)
Not really.
https://storage-asset.msi.com/files/pdf/How_to_flash_the_BIOS.pdf
It starts with a Windows app to download the file but you can download it from the website like, apparently, you already did. Next is unpacking the zip file to the root of a common USB stick. The remaining actions are within UEFI (“BIOS”) as they should be. Firmware updates shouldn’t depend on installed OSes.
This has nothing to do with Ubuntu.
How to Update UEFI BIOS
Most motherboard manufacturers have not started to update UEFI firmware to:
https://fwupd.org/
So you can uninstall fwupd as it will not find motherboard firmware. You can check site to see if any firmware is there:
https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devicelist
You typically have to manually download. Some have direct access via Internet. File downloaded or extracted must be in FAT32 partition for UEFI to find it.
You can see what firmware versions you have for UEFI & SSD.
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version
udisksctl status
To uninstall fwupd
Mask is a stronger version of disable
If UEFI firmware update not supported (yet)
sudo systemctl mask fwupd-refresh.timer
sudo systemctl disable fwupd fwupd-refresh.timer && sudo systemctl stop fwupd
sudo apt-get purge fwupd
Thanks!
I have successfully updated BIOS. It was very simple, but somehow I just wanted to confirm the process, just so that I do not brick anything.
oldfred, thank you for your instructions! I will look at those shortly.