2.6.33 fails to find cpu firmware

From: Gene Heskett
Date: Tue Jan 05 2010 - 01:28:20 EST


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.

Suggested syntax please if this is in fact a fix for this.

Thanks.

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