* steve kay (stevekay at gmail.com) wrote: > Installed OpenSolaris 2008.05 on a Asus A8R-MVP with firmware 0603 > (latest) but still get the "WARNING: BIOS microcode patch for AMD > Athlon(tm) 64 /Opteron(tm) processor erratum 131 was not detected: > updating your system's BIOS to a version containing this microcode > patch is HIGHLY recommended or erroneous system operation may occur" > warning. > > AMD document this CPU bug at > http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/25759.pdf > > Running it via VirtualBox, if that makes any difference. > > Wondering how the heck I avoid this warning. Is OpenSolaris detecting > wrongly, or is the latest BIOS just not up to scratch, or should this > warning just be ignored ?
Just ignore, I believe this is a 'quirk' of VirtualBox (as evidenced by some mail I saw yesterday). You can probably get more details in their forums for the exact reason (I've long since deleted the mail I saw). Cheers, -- Glenn
