On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 13:56:31 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 11:12:44 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > >> Is there somewhere I can look or some command I can run to see if I load > >> any microcode that it needs to access while booting but before /var is > >> mounted? Why isn't the microcode put in /usr or something anyway? > > > > See https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Microcode > > > > That's the guide I followed. > > I followed the link to the AMD one. Then I remembered that I do have > microcode loading because I have a amd-uc.img file in /boot. I never > messed with it but when I update grub config, it finds that. I guess it > will need a init thingy since it has to have that to load the microcode > thing too. The devs have it so automatic, I forgot about the thing. It > only hit me when I read the wiki thing. > > I guess I'll have to keep the init thingy. Now I know.
I don't see why, Dale. I don't use one and my case is similar to yours. When I said I used one for microcode loading, I meant that the microcode image /is/ the initrd. -- Regards, Peter.
