Do Son Canonical temporarily closed the download channel for Ubuntu 17.10 from Ubuntu’s official website last month and left a notification:
As a result of a BIOS firmware problem on some laptops (mostly Lenovo), the laptop fails to start up,It is currently not recommended to download Ubuntu 17.10. After the problem is solved, re-open.
It is reported that the reason for the problem lies in the Linux 4.10 kernel of Ubuntu 17.10 integrated Intel SPI driver, resulting in a large number of Lenovo and other brands of laptop BIOS error. SPI is the acronym for the Serial Peripheral interface, as the name suggests is a serial peripheral interface. The more terrible is that these hung up the laptop after the reset BIOS still not effective, some flash chips cannot be replaced model is only for the motherboard to solve.
Canonical is now announcing plans to release the new Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) ISO image on January 11, including all official versions of ISO including Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu Studio and Ubuntu Budgie Mirror.
Canonical’s Steve Langasek said the new Ubuntu 17.10 ISO image disables the intel-spi driver at build time.
The new Ubuntu 17.10 ISO image will not include patches to fix Meltdown and Specter vulnerabilities
Although the company announced last week that patches were being developed to ease the recently disclosed Meltdown and Specter vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.04 ESM releases, the new mirror for Ubuntu 17.10 does not include patches to fix these vulnerabilities. A “fixed” version of Ubuntu 17.10 will be released later this week according to Canonical’s Steve Langasek. He says the new Ubuntu 17.10 ISO images disable the intel-spi driver at build time.
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