Bug 540075

Summary: Cannot boot after clean install
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Peter Janakiev <malwkgad>
Component: microcode_ctlAssignee: Kyle McMartin <kmcmartin>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: kmcmartin, peterm
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Description Peter Janakiev 2009-11-22 07:58:51 UTC
Description of problem:
After installing over netowrk using F12 DVD as source and rebooting the laptop cannot boot 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
microcode_ctl-1.17-1.53.fc12.1.i686

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. After upgrade - reboot
2. 
3.
  
Actual results:
Booting process starts okay, FS checks perform and interactive startup goes. Once Applying microcode update starts system reboots over and over

Expected results:
Normal boot process


Additional info:
resolved by entering single user mode and removing /etc/init.d/mictocode_ctl 
After that the system boots as expected. 
This is probably some quirck with the exact hardware because I have another laptop that is in the same family CPU (Celeron M) but did not faced such issue with it at all and used the same install mehod. I am not sure how to get the smaolt details but this is the cpu info from proc
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 13
model name	: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor         1.40GHz
stepping	: 8
cpu MHz		: 1400.000
cache size	: 1024 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 2
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx up bts
bogomips	: 2788.52
clflush size	: 64
power management:

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