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Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware affects most servers on planet Earth (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 11 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I have a motherboard with a botched bios I can’t restore stuck in a boot loop over secure boot issues. I can’t even reach the bios config screen to clear it out or reflash. I wonder if this would rescue it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Have you tried removing the CMOS battery?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Yes. Didn’t help. That board is dead. Secure boot sucks

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (5 children)

    Hmm. There might be a way to manually flash the storage/memory but it'd be hard.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Storage was removed. Still wouldn’t reach firmware. The bios needs reflashed and this stupid board has no recovery because WHY DOESNT IT HAVE A RECOVERY FEATURE!?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (3 children)

    The firmware should be on an EEPROM or something

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    It’s on a bios chip that I desolder, reflash, and solder again.

    If I had the skills and the reader.

    So I’m just merging more things into one server and reducing power consumption by collapsing VMs into containers to offset the difference.

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