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   Tom "spot" Callaway :fedora: (spot@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 07:17:59 JST Tom "spot" Callaway :fedora:

   Alienware (Dell) pushed a BIOS update (1.10.0) to my M16 R2 laptop and now Fedora won't boot. Not just the local install, but also a USB live. Same problem with 1.11.0, and neither version will let me downgrade to 1.9.0 or older.

   To be clear, grub comes up, but selecting an item just results in a black screen and the system freezes after a few seconds.

   This is really screwing me over. Is there anything else I can try?

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     Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲 (badnetmask@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 07:17:56 JST Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲

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     • Richard Hughes

     @spot @hughsie
     I vaguely remember a while ago that there was a Windows hotfix that was screwing up with UEFI. But I can't remember the exact words to Google for it right now.

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     Tom "spot" Callaway :fedora: (spot@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 07:17:57 JST Tom "spot" Callaway :fedora:

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     • Richard Hughes

     @hughsie No, I booted into Windows 11 (my first mistake) and it said "Apply security updates?" and I clicked yes (my second mistake).

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     Richard Hughes (hughsie@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 07:17:58 JST Richard Hughes

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     @spot eek, delivery from LVFS/fwupd? https://github.com/fwupd/firmware-dell/ with haste if so.

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     Tom "spot" Callaway :fedora: (spot@social.afront.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 07:22:45 JST Tom "spot" Callaway :fedora:

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     • Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲

     @badnetmask @hughsie I sure would love any hints on what to try to change in order to fix this. :(

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     Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲 (badnetmask@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 07:22:45 JST Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲

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     • Richard Hughes

     @spot @hughsie
     This was a while ago, not sure if still valid, but that's what my brain could conjure.
     https://debugpointnews.com/windows-uefi-boot-linux/