How to recover from "no bootable devices found" and "No updates to process"

This page explains how to recover if your laptop is stuck booting into fwupdate with a no updates to process error message.

Specifically, the error is the following:

found update fwupdate-49w03513-7afe-49a-9d03-89e5ba1da865-0
fwupdate: No updates to process. Called in error?
start_image() returned Invalid Parameter

After a few seconds, it shows another screen:

No bootable devices found.
Press F1 key to retry boot.
Press F2 key to reboot into setup.
Press F5 key to run onboard diagnostics.

Help, I've got this issue too and I can't boot!

There are two ways to fix this:

1. Go into the uefi/bios settings and remove all boot options. If no boot options are present, uefi will start the default option, which should be your OS (specifically grub, the bootloader of your os).

2. Go into the uefi/bios settings and manually add grub64.efi as a boot option. This might require disabling secure boot.

Picture walkthrough:

This is a picture walkthrough for option 2, manually adding grub as boot option, tested in Ubuntu 17.10.

When you see this message, press F2 to enter the UEFI/BIOS setup.

Once in the setup, go to general > Boot Sequence.

Click Add boot option.

Call the boot option "Ubuntu" and click the three dots behind "filename".

Choose the "grubx64.efi" file, click OK and add the boot option.

Now use the arrows to put the "Ubuntu" boot option to the top.

Save and exit, reboot and Ubuntu boots as normal!