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noodle

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Registered: 2014-12-15

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] rEFInd and microcode

Hi all,

This is a kind of embarassing first post by me, but I can't seem to solve this issue.

I've seen similiar threads around, but nothing that's completely relevant to this it seems.

I followed the https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microcode to upgrade the intel microcode using rEFInd. I have the most basic rEFInd configuration, and my /boot/refind_linux.conf looks as such:

"Boot with standard options"        "ro root=UUID=XXX quiet initrd=/boot/intel-ucode.img initrd=/boot/initramfs-linux.img"

However, when I boot I get the 'Failed to open intel-ucode.img' error.

Of course it works again if I remove the intel-ucode.img part.

Package information:

# pacman -Ss intel-ucode
extra/intel-ucode 20140913-1 [installed]

# pacman -Ss refind
extra/refind-efi 0.8.3-1 [installed]

Contents of /boot:

# ls -ltrh /boot
total 26M
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  16K Jan  1  1970 efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 634K Oct 12 14:05 intel-ucode.img
drwx------ 2 root root  12K Dec  7 03:03 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0K Dec  7 03:05 boo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.9M Dec  8 00:44 vmlinuz-linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.4M Dec 14 13:28 initramfs-linux.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  18M Dec 14 13:28 initramfs-linux-fallback.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  341 Dec 14 17:48 refind_linux.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  342 Dec 14 18:04 #refind_linux.conf#

CPU:

model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3840QM CPU @ 2.80GHz

Any ideas? Did I miss something? I have a feeling that the solution to this is easier than I think.

Thanks
    - Noodle

Last edited by noodle (2014-12-16 18:26:26)

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

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Re: [SOLVED] rEFInd and microcode

What's in

ls -ltrh /boot/efi

Also (and this may just be the difference between my setup and yours) I DO NOT have the "/boot/" part after any of my "initrd=xxxxx" parameters. Example:

"Boot to X"    "root=UUID=<THE_UUID> rw rootfstype=ext4 initrd=intel-ucode.img initrd=initramfs-linux.img rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1"

Last edited by mrunion (2014-12-16 00:13:48)

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noodle

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Registered: 2014-12-15

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] rEFInd and microcode

Interesting enough, removing the '/boot/' part from the initrd parameters sovled the issue.

Thanks for the tip.