Sunday, August 31, 2025

Re: Thinkpad x1 carbon gen 6 bios -- bootable iso

On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM Bryan Stenson <bryan.stenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having trouble using the bios bootable ISO released for my system.

Is it not bootable?

> The downloaded ISO matches sha256/sha1/md5, but when I mount it via vnconfig/mount to look around, the filesystem is empty. Previous versions of the bios bootable ISO show empty too.

What problem are you trying to solve?

That's not a sarcastic question: it is not necessary to use vnconfig
or mount to _use_ the bootable ISO image, at least if you follow the
direction in the INSTALL.amd64 file, so you're doing something
unusual.

Also, you don't actually say *EXACTLY* what you did, or what the
results were, so how can we explain how your third command had the
wrong argument when we don't know what your third command was?


> I'm able to perform the same steps on an alpine ISO (vnconfig/mount).

...to accomplish what?


> Curious if anybody has experience getting one of these ISOs "working"... to mount locally, and ultimately get written to a USB stick to apply the bios update. Any tips/tricks from other successful thinkpad bios flashers using these bootable ISOs?

What step in the INSTALL.amd64 file failed for you?


Philip Guenther

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