BIOS update on a dual boot computer & Intel ME/firmware security flaws

[kt53]

Greetings:

There is news pouring out of Intel about security flaws in their Management Engine https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en ... tware.html and other firmware, and it appears that fixing some of these flaws may require a BIOS updates which mostly affects Lenovo/HP computers.

I have a two-disk dual boot W10H/CentOS 7.4 with UEFI system with each OS on a separate disk.

I did a search and this https://askubuntu.com/questions/646525/ ... ot-machine appears to suggest that things may work OK!

Can anyone with first hand experience that has done this, tell me if updating the BIOS/firmware (that may forcefully happen by Windows without my control) would or would not wreak havoc on my computer?

Thanks
KT/Indy

[TrevorH]

I've never heard of a BIOS update having problems because it was run a dual boot machine. Obviously you have to run it from the operating system that the vendor ships the update file for - usually windows but often as a bootable DOS image or even a bootable linux one.

[kt53]

Thank you Trevor.