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diff --git a/content/posts/upgrading-and-downgrading-skulls.md b/content/posts/upgrading-and-downgrading-skulls.md index 187cf6c..5da8e53 100644 --- a/content/posts/upgrading-and-downgrading-skulls.md +++ b/content/posts/upgrading-and-downgrading-skulls.md @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ --- title: "Upgrading (and Downgrading) Skulls on a Thinkpad laptop" date: 2020-11-16T22:59:00 +lastmod: 2022-06-13T12:14:00 tags: ["Guides", "Hardware", "Linux", "Software"] --- @@ -8,7 +9,7 @@ After posting [my previous guide](/flashing-skulls-to-a-thinkpad-x230t/) regardi The first thing you'll want is to install the two dependencies the script requires. ``` -sudo pacman -S dimdecode flashrom +sudo pacman -S dmidecode flashrom ``` Now grab the [latest release](https://github.com/merge/skulls/releases) from the projects Github repository and extract the archive using `tar -xf skulls-x230t-0.0.2.tar.xz`. @@ -33,4 +34,7 @@ This can easily be amended by editing `/etc/default/grub` and adding the line `G ### Downgrading Unfortunately, not was all well with my upgrade. Even thought the process completed without issue I noticed strange issues with the computer and firefox crashing intermittently. I tried flashing the non-free image which gave me the exact same response. -So with only a few moments hesitation I decided to revert to version 0.1.8 again. The process is mostly the exact same as installation (albeit with a different release), however I did get a strange error while installing relating to `Reading old flash chip contents`. As [mentioned (and fixed) in this issue report](https://github.com/merge/skulls/issues/142#issuecomment-593694005), it can be fixed by simply replacing flashroms' `-p internal` parameter with with `-p internal:boardmismatch=force --force --noverify-all`.
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