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- <title>genisoimage make CD firmware upgrades a breeze</title>
- <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/genisoimage_make_CD_firmware_upgrades_a_breeze.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <title>geteltorito make CD firmware upgrades a breeze</title>
+ <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/geteltorito_make_CD_firmware_upgrades_a_breeze.html</link>
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+ <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2022 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><p>Recently I wanted to upgrade the firmware of my thinkpad, and
located the firmware download page from Lenovo (which annoyingly do
not allow access via Tor, forcing me to hand them more personal
information that I would like). The
-<a href="https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht003029-lenovo-system-update-update-drivers-bios-and-applications">download
+<a href="https://support.lenovo.com/no/en/search?query=thinkpad firmware bios upgrade iso&SearchType=Customer search&searchLocation=Masthead">download
from Lenovo</a> is a bootable ISO image, which is a bit of a problem
when all I got available is a USB memory stick. I tried booting the
ISO as a USB stick, but this did not work. But genisoimage came to
the rescue.</p>
<P>The geteltorito program in
-<a href="http://tracker.debian.org/genisoimage">the genisoimage
+<a href="http://tracker.debian.org/cdrkit">the genisoimage binary
package</a> is able to convert the bootable ISO image to a bootable
USB stick using a simple command line recipe, which I then can write
to the most recently inserted USB stick:</p>