12th gen: How do I update from BIOS 3.04 with Linux?

[SeanL]

Might be celebrating early, but I think the steps here have fixed it:

Unable to update Firmware from 3.04 to latest on website

SOLUTION OK, I found the issues. Here’s what I did in hopes it will help others. This information is based on a 13" 12th gen with BIOS 3.04 attempting to upgrade to 3.17. I’m running Bazzite Linux but the OS won’t really matter for this because this is using the EFI boot method. If you haven’t read this page, pause here and go read it. Create a FAT32 USB Unzip the EFI zip file onto the top/root directory of the USB The USB drive does NOT need to be bootable Turn off SecureBoot. This may not …