FC16 Kernel 3.3.1

unkie888 · 04-13-2012, 11:28 AM

During boot I'm seeing loads of udevd timeout messages. For example:

Code:

udevd[546]: timeout: killing '/sbin/modprobe microcode' [662]

The message is repeated over and over, so I guess it isn't killing whatever that microcode thing is... anyway, it never completes the booting.

If anyone knows what the problem is...

uhelp · 04-14-2012, 08:25 PM

Microcode is a kind of abstraction of the processors own instruction set.
This kind of software is used to make higher level programming a bit easier.
(higher level in this context does mean assembler, not any of the higher level programming language like C )

The microcode must fit exactly to the processor itself.

If it can't load it is just the wrong one.

Get the proper one, or blacklist the module.