How to update your BIOS firmware in Linux

If you want to have the latest updates for your BIOS and other hardware firmwares, you only need a recent version of Elive like 3.8.11 installed on your hard disk using UEFI

yes, this feature only works for UEFI based systems

Next? you don't need to do anything, if there's any update, it will ask you if you want to upgrade it in a future boot of your computer :slight_smile:

If you want to check it manually, you can always run yourself this command:

In this case, this computer is not installed over UEFI so these updates cannot be applied

Otherwise, if nothing happens, it means that there's no updates or you are using the last updated versions

I have just applied 3 firmware updates (BIOS included) to one of my computers and it fixed a small hardware issue that this computer had 😄

Don't run wincrap to update your BIOS, don't do research on internet, don't check your bios version, or verifying how reliable the website is to download a bios update... forget everything, just use Elive, and let it do all the work for you