Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:47:05 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.33 fails to find cpu firmware |
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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...
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