Up-Board UEFI Bios upgrade

Kris Gunnarsson

I have (I hope) a simple question: What does it mean:
"Put files from BIOS package into UEFI bootable USB drive."

I am trying to install ubuntu 16.04 onto an Up-Board (part of the Realsense kit).
I have failed everything I've tried; 16.04 will not "stick" to the Up-Board, i.e. will not boot w/o USB stick inserted.
I figured I needed to upgrade the UEFI bios(?).

I have created a 16.04.3 image on a USB stick using Rufus.
If I unzip upc1bm0x_efi.zip then copy the content of the UPC1BM0X directory onto that USB stick, there will be conflicts, i.e. over writing of files.

I am presumably not understanding the instructions correctly.
I will be very grateful for help.

Thank you,
-Kris

Nicola Lunghi

Hi Kris
please follow the guide on the UP wiki

https://up-community.org/wiki/Bios_Update#Procedure

Regards
Nicola Lunghi

Kris Gunnarsson

[CORRECTION 171114 (2017Nov14)]
"go_64.sh" was wrong, "go_64.nsh" is correct (see below)
Thanks to charlybegood who pointed this out.


Thank you for your response.
In the meantime I had seen posts where others suggested following the Wiki so per your advice I did.
It worked, I successfully installed 16.04.3.
Thank you.

In case somebody else has this problem (likely) I'll add my experience to make it less confusing for the next fella.

I prepared a USB stick with only the UEFI Bios upgrade as instructed;
I got to the Boot Menu, but my menu looked different from the one shown on the Wiki.
I had only two options, the UEFI and Setup. I picked UEFI.
This put me into a cycle where the board would boot up again and again.
I was eventually able to catch it with the Esc key and get to the UEFI shell.
However, the output scrolled by so fast that I was unable to see the drive letter that I should switch to.
I tried different drive letters and "fs0:" worked for me.
I then ran "go_64.nsh".
This took a bit of time.
I had to issue the reset command.

Next time the board booted up I entered the Setup and was not too happy to see under the boot tab I still had the
two option "OS Image" of Windows and Antroid. I wasn't sure if that was right.

But I figured I should give it a try anyway and try to install 16.04, so I re-started the process.
Miscellaneous info: I had the network cable disconnected; I chose to clean memory then install ubuntu;
I chose no 3rd party stuff; I chose to force UEFI boot install; etc., etc.
I don't remember any more drama.
Bottom line was that to my great relief the install succeeded.
Only took me 2.5 days to get it done!

I hope the next guy who trips over this, finds this post and it helps him out.
Good luck.

-Kris

Charles D

Hi !
I started to get crazy thinking there was a problem with my bootable USB drive but I found out that there is an error in your latest BIOS update files for UP board :
> EFI/BOOT/startup.nsh
you need to replace "go_nsh" to "go_64.nsh"

mikeschinkel

Your link https://www.up-community.org/wiki/Bios_Update#Procedure is broken.