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From: "Chris Rankin" <rankincj@yahoo.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: tigran@veritas.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Loading Pentium III microcode under Linux - catch 22!
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 16:41:33 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030807154133.54615.qmail@web40606.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1060267992.3168.70.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>

 --- 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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-07 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-07 12:28 Chris Rankin
2003-08-07 13:04 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-07 13:58 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-07 14:38   ` Chris Rankin
2003-08-07 14:53     ` Alan Cox
2003-08-07 15:21       ` Tomas Szepe
2003-08-07 15:41       ` Chris Rankin [this message]
2003-08-07 23:12     ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2003-08-07 15:57   ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-08-07 15:55     ` Alan Cox
2003-08-08  8:24     ` Chris Rankin
2003-08-07 17:40 Nakajima, Jun
2004-01-13 19:00 ` Alan Cox

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