Mine’s 100MB, with ~50MB free. I did have to do some cleaning out of the EFI partition as LVFS stupidly doesn’t clean up after itself if an update fails.
Just followed the LVFS guide above on Linux (Fedora) and it worked great!
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629 MB — 577 MB free
Weirdly enough, the available BIOS update just showed up in GNOME software right after I used it to do the latest system updates (kernel, pipewire etc.). After hitting “install” from there instead of in the terminal as before, it worked and I am now on 3.10
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No issues here, except fwupdmgr still sees my current BIOS version wrong and I had to pass --allow-older to get it to do the update: after having updated to 3.10 fwupdmgr get-devices now reports my current version as 784 (which is the decimal equivalent of 0x310, following the pattern I’ve been seeing).
This is just a vague annoyance but I am curious as to why it’s happening.
Solved it myself, find the guide for updating BIOS without a battery here:
Also, updated with this method from 3.07 to 3.10 (from Windows, because I have no knowlegde of the CLI switches needed to make it work via UEFI boot), no issues there. Was my first update and I panicked for a moment when the machine just shut off after the update. But turning it on revealed everything was working perfectly.
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The “100% battery” requirement seems to be essential.
I had my battery set to cap charging at 80%, and the LVFS update did nothing. I changed the charge limit in my BIOS to 100% and fully charged the battery, and then the fwupdmgr update followed by a reboot installed the new BIOS correctly.
(By “correctly” I mean it installed 3.10; it still wiped out the BIOS settings so that I needed to reset all my BIOS customizations, boot with the “F3” boot menu, and re-install GRUB. But those are known problems with the BIOS update.)
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Updated from 3.09 to 3.10 using
sudo fwupdmgr refresh
sudo fwupdmgr update
Opened the BIOS to reset my power button brightness and max battery level. Then rebooted and used F3 to browse to the image for y mcurrent Manjaro and re-install the boot manager. From the Manjaro Wiki:
sudo su -
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=manjaro --recheck
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
exit
Rebooted and all’s well. Posting this here so I remember how to do it next time.
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10mb remaining out of 100, so I suspect you’re on to something.
Is there a noob-friendly guide for resizing my EFI parition? There must be a way to do it that doesn’t require command-line fluency, rsync, etc.
gparted will probably do it but the space has to come from somewhere, which means moving the beginning of the next partition. That will take a long time.
I’ll shorten the original question to avoid confusion about what I’m looking for:
If you’re using systemd-boot, you could feasibly create an “Extended Boot Loader Partition”, which could be used to store things like the kernel without putting them on the undersized EFI partition.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFI_system_partition#Typical_mount_points
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-boot#Installation_using_XBOOTLDR
But, the other option is to try and resize the partitions after to then shift them down and then resize the EFI partition; most things I’ve read imply that they give up and just reinstall remembering to increase the size (or, if this is Windows’ fault, trick its installer into using a larger partition than 100MB, its default).
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Aw shucks. I was so happy with my config. Guess it’s time to learn some scripting for future installs so that this doesn’t hurt so bad next time. If I’m understanding things accurately, I hope the Fedora team sees this thread and adjusts their defaults.
Was this necessary? I’m also using Manjaro and haven’t had any of these updates wipe out GRUB.
It is necessary for a certain subset of users for whom their bootloader was not installed in the “fallback location.”
Technical details follow. Feel free to skip them.
UEFI systems will choose bootloaders based on a set of variables, BootOrder and Boot####. In the absence of those variables, it will look for a special file named BOOTx64.EFI in a certain folder.
The UEFI updates for the Framework Laptop (11th Gen) reset those variables. If your distribution installer places a copy of GRUB in the right place, it will automatically get picked up even when those variables are missing.
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Updated by EFI Shell with no issues or problems (Ubuntu 22.04 lts)
Updated to 3.10 and everything so far seems to be working fine. As usual, had to reinstall grub as the EFI partition was overwritten.
Successful update from 3.09 to 3.10 using fwupdmgr on arch derivative.
If you are not seeing the newest firmware being reported by fwupdmgr, be sure to issue sudo fwupdmgr refresh, that is what made it show up for me.
Once again my boot variables that pointed the system to rEFInd went away (so it failed down to my backup install’s grub bootloader instead). I do appreciate the new feature to press F3 to navigate to my refind_x86.efi, as this and a simple ‘refind-install’ puts everything back in order.
I can confirm the charging while shutdown behavior is fixed as expected, 40-55w charging under 3.10 vs 1w charging on 3.09.
Also, during the install of 3.09, the laptop went blazing hot. This did not occur during 3.10. I cannot remember if I changed the BIOS Performance toggle to max battery or not though, that might have made the difference.
Due to a bug report in another thread, I just double checked, and all 4 of my USB ports can take in power, pass data, etc.
Ran a quick suspend test as well and battery use was about 0.9% per hour, pretty similar to on other BIOS’s for me. I still would like to see the keyboard backlight go to zero by itself when the machine suspends…
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Can confirm that a full reinstall was necessary to resolve my issue. The EFI System Partition size was indeed the culprit.
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Glad to hear you got it sorted.
Ideally, the Windows / Linux firmware installation process should do a pre-requisite validation (EFI free space, in this case), and return meaningful error message if required.