Bug 71918 - No microcode found should NOT be an error
Summary: No microcode found should NOT be an error
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel-utils
Version: null
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-20 06:49 UTC by Dax Kelson
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-08-20 06:49:30 UTC
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Description Dax Kelson 2002-08-20 06:49:25 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux)

Description of problem:
I did an everything install of Null on my new Dell P4 laptop. On the first bootup, I get the nice message:

Applying Intel IA32 Microcode update:                      [FAILED]

I guess that is because my Mobile Pentium 4 doesn't have an update for it in /etc/firmware/microcode.dat.

If this the case (no update exists), it shouldn't result in a failure message. This is confusing/frightening for the newbie sys admin.



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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Null on a new laptop with mobile Pentium 4.
2. Watch the pretty error message on boot.


Actual Results:  n/a

Expected Results:  n/a

Additional info:

tail /var/log/messages:
Aug 19 23:40:15 mentor microcode_ctl: microcode_ctl startup failed
Aug 19 23:40:15 mentor kernel: microcode: CPU0 no microcode found! (sig=f24, pflags=8)


# x86info
x86info v1.7.  Dave Jones 2001
Feedback to <davej>.

Found 1 CPU
Family: 15 Model: 2 Stepping: 4 Type: 0 [Unknown CPU Original OEM]
Processor name string:        Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.90GHz

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2002-08-20 07:55:16 UTC
100% agreed. I yesterday fixed it so that the init script doesn't fail in the
"no newer firmware" case... that should do the trick.


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