Acer One 11 Laptop BIOS update

[Douglas Gilbert]

I updated a Samsung Chromebook with MrChromebox firmware for the bios and I
currently run Linux Mint 22.2 on it.

Douglas

On Sat, Nov 22, 2025, 6:58 AM Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 at 11:45, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The early Celerons were 32 bit only so will not run current Ubuntu.
>> Later ones (as this one is I think) should be ok.
>>
> Yes. A quick Google for "Intel Celeron CPU N3060 specs" established that
> it supports a 64-bit instruction set.
>
>
>> Are you able to boot off a USB stick with Ubuntu on it to check?
>>
> Alan has booted many isos on this laptop from USB memory stick. He even
> managed to install Peppermint OS (and, subsequently, other distros) to the
> main drive.
>
> However, once installed, whenever a non-Windows system starts to load the
> Initial Ramdisk, the system freezes.
>
> I did some temporary Grub fiddling to establish that the system is
> freezing at the Initial Ramdisk phase.
>
> Searches about this found that there is a BIOS bug which means it can only
> boot Windows from its main storage drive and that we need to update the
> BIOS/firmware in order to boot something other than Windows from the main
> drive.
>
> BW,
>
>
> Ian
>
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