Re: RHEL v3 to RHEL v4 SNAFUs (laus, microcode_ctl, networking)

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan infradead org>]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 23:21 +0000, Stephen Gardner wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Lee Whatley, Contractor wrote:
> 
> > microcode_ctl:
> > The first service that started under RHEL v3 (S00_microcode_ctl) now fails. 
> > It generates the error "microcode device /dev/cpu/0/microcode doesn't exist?" 
> > An rpm -qf shows that this service belongs to the kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.48 
> > package which was installed as part of the upgrade.
> 
> Lee,
>  	Just a note on this one that you should bugzilla this, it's a 
> udev related issue. In RHEL3 the /dev/cpu heirarchy was pre-created but in 
> RHEL4 it needs to be created dyanmically however the 
> /etc/udev/rules.d/50-dev.rules file "microcode" rule isn't sufficient to 
> create the necessary device nodes.

and you don't actually need nor sort of want the microcode thing anyway,
so really nothing is lost here.