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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-05-22 19:25:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-05-23 08:59:54 +0200 |
| commit | bd882e8606f2311f83ec3f7a60627a797e7677f7 (patch) | |
| tree | 926f0e354753b2efaf1eb1ea06be56f972cb97bb /README.initrd | |
| parent | 345b47e0726d4221c4a2d5b745731ca6c10a0f69 (diff) | |
| download | current-bd882e8606f2311f83ec3f7a60627a797e7677f7.tar.gz | |
Sat May 22 19:25:09 UTC 202120210522192509
a/kernel-generic-5.10.39-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.10.39-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.10.39-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/slackpkg-15.0.3-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
Fixed 'continue' error message. Thanks to dive.
d/kernel-headers-5.10.39-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.10.39-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libsigc++-2.10.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/libepoxy-1.5.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.12.x/kernel-generic-5.12.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.12.x/kernel-headers-5.12.6-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.12.x/kernel-huge-5.12.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.12.x/kernel-modules-5.12.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.12.x/kernel-source-5.12.6-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 5b0678dd..341787c3 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed May 19 20:17:28 UTC 2021 +Sat May 22 19:13:38 UTC 2021 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 5.10.38 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.10.39 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-5.10.38-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.38-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.10.39-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.39-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-24.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 5.10.38 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.39 -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 5.10.38 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.10.39 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.38 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.39 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |