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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2020-12-20 03:10:57 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-12-20 08:59:51 +0100 |
commit | 98f1ac1fd7a1b5643d4040c9d18276576a7d759a (patch) | |
tree | ed148154f5e837b482889bf99527bbc97aa707c0 /README.initrd | |
parent | c9a25f18230e4de74520105a1310ca50c9f30239 (diff) | |
download | current-98f1ac1fd7a1b5643d4040c9d18276576a7d759a.tar.gz |
Sun Dec 20 03:10:57 UTC 202020201220031057
Linus didn't think this was a scary kernel and in spite of skipping a few
branches here before getting to this one, I don't either. Not scary enough
to make me think I need to start it out in /testing, anyway. I have a good
feeling about this kernel. Enjoy! :-)
a/bash-5.1.004-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/elogind-246.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Don't make 10-enable-session-power.rules a .new file.
Thanks to Robby Workman.
a/kernel-firmware-20201218_646f159-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-5.10.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.10.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.10.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/ndctl-71-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/sysvinit-scripts-2.1-noarch-37.txz: Rebuilt.
rc.S: don't start cgmanager/cgproxy.
rc.6: don't stop cgmanager/cgproxy.
d/kernel-headers-5.10.1-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.10.1-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libtiff-4.2.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/zstd-1.4.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/ca-certificates-20201219-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update provides the latest CA certificates to check for the
authenticity of SSL connections.
xap/libnma-1.8.30-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index b2aea32c..95da9a58 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Dec 17 03:34:26 UTC 2020 +Sun Dec 20 02:03:58 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 5.4.84 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.10.1 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-5.4.84-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.84-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.10.1-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.1-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 5.4.84 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.1 -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 5.4.84 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.10.1 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.84 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.1 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |