(Assuming by GNU bootloader you mean GRUB) In Arch GRUB is patched to search intel-ucode.img automatically. If you write your own grub.cfg instead of using grub-mkconfig, you just put the image name in the same "initrd" line before the main initramfs. On 11 June 2015 at 00:45, Neven Sajko <nsajko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10 June 2015 at 03:12, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Anatol Pomozov >> <anatol.pomozov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Do you use Intel CPU? Try to setup microcode and see if it helps >>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microcode >> >> I do, but that has not changed, and as CPU problems would likely >> affect the whole system rather than a specific library I'm hesitant to >> try something so low-level. > > You should definitely set the microcode updates up, bugs in μcode > could affect any part of the system and you'll need to do it sooner or > later. > It's not hard to do, at least with syslinux, I hear the GNU bootloader > is more complicated to use.