On Sep 12, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Jay Leafey wrote:

Brian T. Brunner wrote:
> [quote]"microcode device doesn't exist?"[/quote]
> Try grepping for 'microcode' in /var/log/messages, try dmesg | grep
> microcode, either or both may give you the exact text.
> chkconfig --list | grep microcode may also give you a hit, if yes,
> the problem is easy to cure: turn off the service (man chkconfig).

My Athlon XP 2600+ system gives me this every boot with no apparent problems.  I've seen this with other non-Intel CPUs too.  I suspect this is NOT what is causing your boot delay.

Just my $.02!
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Jay Leafey - Memphis, TN
jay.leafey@mindless.com
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The message comes from  (on one of my systems) /etc/init.d/microcode_ctl

which is part of the kernel-utils package.

I  started getting this message when I upgraded to CentOS 4. My installed kernel-utils is version 2.4-13.1.66. Is this meant for version 2.4 kernels and if so, is there a version for 2.6 kernels? I don't see anything listed with "yum list available"

Tony Schreiner
Boston College