Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263990AbTHGPnC (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:43:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263861AbTHGPmy (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:42:54 -0400 Received: from web40606.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.78.143]:20247 "HELO web40606.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263990AbTHGPlh (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:41:37 -0400 Message-ID: <20030807154133.54615.qmail@web40606.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 16:41:33 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Chris=20Rankin?= Subject: Re: Loading Pentium III microcode under Linux - catch 22! To: Alan Cox Cc: tigran@veritas.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1060267992.3168.70.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 904 Lines: 25 --- Alan Cox wrote: > Looking at it you can do it in initrd fine, or you > can do it as the first thing you do once the real > root fs is mounted from init's scripts > (/etc/rc.sysinit normally) I'm doing the latter right already. The problem is that even using ext3, I'm occasionally fscking the root partition with dodgy CPUs after a lock-up. Hopefully, initrd will allow me to load the microcode earlier in the boot sequence. Cheers, Chris ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/