Difficulties Getting disable write protect on HP 11 G8 EE

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I am attempting to flash the UEFI firmware to my G8 EE.

I booted off of the charger. This worked to disable write protect when I was un-enrolling it (Found this in a E waste Bin at work).

Unfortunatly when I run the curl command to run the firmware-utils.sh I get a “read only file system”

I then tired soldering a wire to the chip (As seen in the image). This also works for the un-enrolling.

Using Either both or separately, I still get the “read only file system” error.

Thanks for any that helps me out.

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Are you trying to run curl as root?

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jesus fucking christ.

how does “read only filesystem” translate into “I need to solder the firmware chip”?

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almost definitely. SMH

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isn’t that how to disable write protect as well?

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Yep

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“read only filesystem” has nothing to do with the firmware flash chip.

you said yourself you had already disabled firmware WP. Why did you think soldering was needed? You never need to solder the chip directly.

The instructions specifically tell you not to run as root, and specifically call out this reason as why not to.

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Well, as the docs say, don’t.

All you had to do to disable WP on that model is disconnect the battery. Firmware write protect has nothing to do with the “read only filesystem” error

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Thanks for the input, seams good now