[CentOS] microcode_ctl

Wed Nov 29 12:33:48 UTC 2006
Denis Machard <dmachard at fr.netcentrex.net>

On vmware i have  i386 kernel and with HP server a x86_64 kernel 

-----Original Message-----
From: Wojtek.Pilorz [mailto:wpilorz at bdk.pl]
Sent: mercredi 29 novembre 2006 12:33
To: Denis Machard
Cc: 'CentOS mailing list'
Subject: Re: [CentOS] microcode_ctl

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Denis Machard wrote:

> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:42:20 +0100
> From: Denis Machard <dmachard at fr.netcentrex.net>
> Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> To: 'CentOS mailing list' <centos at centos.org>
> Subject: [CentOS] microcode_ctl
> 
> i'm running on vmware system and HP proliant DL360 G5 servers
>  
>  
> on wmware, on boot i have the following message:
>  
> -----------------------------
> Applying Intel Microcode update: don't know to make device "cpu/microcode"
> [OK]
> -----------------------------
>  
> and on a HP proliant DL360 G5 server , on boot i have too the 
> following
> message:
>  
> -----------------------------
> Applying Intel Microcode update: don't know to make device "cpu/microcode"
> etc/rc3.d/S00microcode_ctl: microcode device /dev/cpu/microcode 
> doesn't exist?
> [OK]
> -----------------------------
>  
Do you have i686 kernel running (rather than i586) ?
I had such message on Fedora Core 6 which installed i586 kernel on my PIII
CPU.

Wojtek