/dev/cpu/microcode still not happy

[Joel Rittvo]

Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:34:31PM -0500, Joel Rittvo wrote:
> 
>>I am running current rawhide (except with the last FC3 kernel 
>>2.6-10-1.770_FC3), from daily updates, not a full clean install.  I have 
>>been getting a boot-up message about /dev/cpu/microcode not being able 
>>to be made for a long time now.  Today there was an update to MAKEDEV 
>>that relates to this.  I installed it, but I'm still getting the error 
>>message.  I also made a fresh initrd file today, just in case that was 
>>related.
> 
> 
> Is the "microcode" device being loaded on your system?  udev should be
> creating /dev/cpu/microcode when the module is loaded....
> 
> Nalin
> 

In the System Configuration tool, microcode_ctl is checked to run at 
runlevel 3 and 5.  It reports the following status:

/etc/init.d/microcode_ctl: microcode device /dev/cpu/microcode doesn't 
exist?

I get the same message when I attempt to restart microcode_ctl from the 
System Configuration tool.