From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: Dell Inspiron 8000 with Pentium III Coppermine 1.0GHz, kernel 2.4.11 and 2.4.12, fail to update the IA32 microcode. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot, or 2.run /sbin/microcode_ctl -u Actual Results: 1: Applying Intel IA32 Microcode update: [FAILED] 2: /sbin/microcode_ctl: writing microcode (length: 141312) /sbin/microcode_ctl: error writing to '/dev/cpu/0/microcode' errno=5 (Input/output error) /sbin/microcode_ctl: there may be messages from the driver in your system log. Expected Results: It works on all my other machines. Additional info: /var/log/messages says: Aug 21 04:15:51 livre kernel: microcode: CPU0 no microcode found! (sig=68a, pflags=32) Aug 21 04:15:51 livre microcode_ctl: microcode_ctl startup failed
fixed this 2 days ago :)