The machine these drives where in was running Ubuntu 21.04, luckily, with a few easy to follow command-line steps, we can extract the firmware tool from Samsungs ISO file and run it in our modern Linux environment, this helped flashing the drives without any issues for me!Īlthough this worked fine for me, your results might be differentįirst, unmount any filesystem mounted on the drive(s). At that time I solved it by moving those SATA drives to an Intel based system, but that was no option for these NVMe drives.

Broken kernel, no way around it, have to use PS2 keyboard or you are just stuckĪnd well, I was stuck on the “no keyboard” issue once again, like I had also been a few years back.Doesn’t understand the controller somehow.Yeah, except that Samsungs Linux boot environment has been broken **for a few years now**! It will not work with your AMD system, two main problems: This box is built around a x570 motherboard with a Ryzen 9 5900x.Įasy you’d say, just download the firmware update ISO, put it on a USB stick, boot, update the firmware, done! In my case I was trying to update 2 Samsung 980 Pro 1TB NVMe drives which are present in one of my Chia plotter boxes. But for some reason, Samsung does not publish a way to update the SSD firmware on Linux and their ISO boot tool is completely broken.

I love using Samsung SSDs (SATA or NVMe) and have them in most of my builds.

Samsung monitor firmware update