Re: Loading Pentium III microcode under Linux - catch 22!

From: Chris Rankin (rankincj@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 10:41:33 EST


 --- Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 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

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