An update to linux kernel on Ubuntu 17.10 that enabled the Intel SPI drivers results in a serial flash that is read only in Intel Broadwell and Haswell machines with serial flashes with SPI_NOR_HAS_LOCK set. Warning: 32bit iso on sourceforge for boot-repair-disk still contains unpatched Kernel. This is especially dangerous if boot-repair fails to repair the system to a bootable state, as there wil