lenovo thinkpad x1 carbon touch bios update on linux

the gruj11us.iso bios update cd was enough to fix my laptop and allow suspend to work normally.

since this laptop does not come with an optical drive to use a cd, i had to use flash. for some reason, the iso images provided by lenovo cannot be written to usb drives like as has now become normal. so, we must extract an image capable of such things.

first thing i needed was the actual bios update. the particular update i used was gruj11us.iso. the file can be found at lenovo.com.

the next thing i needed was to download the geteltorito.pl script. at the time of writing, i used v0.5. it can be found here along with some other info.

run the geteltorito.pl script on the gruj11us.iso image and save the output which will be the image you’ll use to put on the flash drive.

$ perl geteltorito.pl -o biosupdate.img gruj11us.iso
$ dd if=biosupdate.img of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-flash-drive:0 bs=512K

this was enough for me.


originally, when looking around, i found outdated scripts that didn’t work very well. they did not produce a full image. so, here, i’m providing links to the binaries and their sha1sums so that hopefully people will not struggle with something that was actually pretty simple.

mirrors

i am just mirroring these until someone tells me not to. but really, one would only need to download the biosupdate.img and then dd that to their usb drive.

here are the SHA1 sums of the files.

7d356fc04a87250831540f1871fc323c60b7a655  biosupdate.img
65714e678c07158399c25c54db617dfca1ae8d92  geteltorito.pl
fd13aa94bff82e6df9c6cefd8ad002af78958c8b  gruj11us.iso