From Bugzilla Helper: 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. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 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
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.