I have a 9360 with Ubuntu 16.10 (I overwrote original Windows OS, so not dual boot) and BIOS 1.07. I see a BIOS update came out on 14th December, but read elsewhere that there are issues with it - notably possible non compatibility with NVMe drives (mine came with NVMe SSD, had to change RAID to AHCI to get it recognised before Ubuntu install). So questions:
1) Should I hold off a BIOS update until 1.2.3 is fixed/compatible with NVMe
2) Can anyone point me at instructions for BIOS update with an Ubuntu machine (not done this before)
I have a 9360 Developer Edition with stock hardware (512GB NVMe), all default options, and pre-installed Ubuntu. After upgrading to 1.2.3, I can't boot anymore with the same error people have been reporting: the device isn't recognized anymore at boot time (and by default jumps to Dell's Support Assist for memory testing instead).
Thanks @kavirondo. Be interested to hear anyone running Yakkety with default (4.8) Kernel who has successfully done the upgrade - & I guess an explanation of why some users (e.g. @nomo1) report disk not recognised problems after upgrading on similar/same hardware..
I have a DE but update via software center hadn't worked for me to. I guess because Dell did something wrong. For more details and instructions please look at
Actually @kavirondo, I'd be grateful if you could share your process for BIOS upgrade, as I've not done this before. Dell's instructions here say "Ubuntu 16.04 and later natively will notify you for BIOS updates" but I have had no such notification - I guess this may apply to Dell installed Linux (Sputnik/DE) unlike yours/my setup? Anyhow, will follow the BIOS flashing from USB instructions there unless I hear differently.
Yury Vidineev
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Posted January 10th, 2017 17:00
I propose to wait for fix if you haven't any major issues with current version