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Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware affects most servers on planet Earth (arstechnica.com)
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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago (1 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.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Have you tried removing the CMOS battery?

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 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!?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The firmware should be on an EEPROM or something

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days 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.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago

sh.itjust.works

Not the motherboard

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah its not worth the effort. Wanted to check just in case you didn't :3