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SubjectRe: 2.6.33 fails to find cpu firmware
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings a;;
>
> 2.6.33-rc2 isn't terribly stable here, but the first problem is .6 seconds
> into the boot, it hangs for 1 minute waiting on the amd cpu firmware, which I
> don't believe it ever finds, it just times out and goes on. This machine
> runs fairly well without that even for a cold boot.
>
> I assume this is because the root filesystem with /lib/firmware is not yet
> available, and that if this file was supplied in the initrd file, this would
> go away.
>
> I've studied the manpage for mkinitrd, but the precise option to do this
> preload escapes me.
>
But the root should be mounted before firmware, I'm looking at my messages log
and everything including swap seems to be there before the firmware loader is
called. That's on a 2.6.31 kernel, but still...

--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot


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