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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2020-12-08 19:29:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-12-09 08:59:48 +0100 |
| commit | 7d1fda615bfe3ec57a0c6753082b866a09ac1af3 (patch) | |
| tree | 215b903d14cff77f90ba6fb2ddc5960028a16aa2 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 5584dad3850d8f1aa3459ed8b85b3f8b571df3d4 (diff) | |
| download | current-7d1fda615bfe3ec57a0c6753082b866a09ac1af3.tar.gz | |
Tue Dec 8 19:29:55 UTC 202020201208192955
a/kernel-generic-5.4.82-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.4.82-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.4.82-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/openssl-solibs-1.1.1i-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/gutenprint-5.3.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/htop-3.0.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.4.82-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/python3-3.9.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.4.82-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/M2Crypto-0.37.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/gdk-pixbuf2-2.42.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/imagemagick-7.0.10_46-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/mlt-6.24.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/pipewire-0.3.17-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/openssl-1.1.1i-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This fixes a denial-of-service security issue.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1971
(* Security fix *)
x/fcitx-configtool-0.4.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/libgee-0.20.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/marisa-0.2.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.initrd')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.initrd | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 42022843..cd24429f 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Dec 3 23:39:05 UTC 2020 +Tue Dec 8 19:18:19 UTC 2020 This document describes how to create and install an initrd, which may be required to use the 4.x kernel. Also see "man mkinitrd". @@ -33,15 +33,15 @@ flexible to ship a generic kernel and a set of kernel modules for it. The easiest way to make the initrd is to use the mkinitrd script included in Slackware's mkinitrd package. We'll walk through the process of -upgrading to the generic 5.4.81 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.4.82 Linux kernel using the packages found in Slackware's slackware/a/ directory. First, make sure the kernel, kernel modules, and mkinitrd package are installed (the current version numbers might be a little different, so this is just an example): - installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.81-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.81-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.82-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.82-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-15.txz Change into the /boot directory: @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Now you'll want to run "mkinitrd". I'm using ext4 for my root filesystem, and since the disk controller requires no special support the ext4 module will be the only one I need to load: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.81 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.82 -m ext4 This should do two things. First, it will create a directory /boot/initrd-tree containing the initrd's filesystem. Then it will @@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ you could make some additional changes in /boot/initrd-tree/ and then run mkinitrd again without options to rebuild the image. That's optional, though, and only advanced users will need to think about that. -Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.81 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.82 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.81 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.82 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |