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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-11-12 19:19:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-11-13 08:59:55 +0100 |
| commit | 16ac9d3a43867e3a389c4459e8d2cd01b7cc13ed (patch) | |
| tree | d4559a81e92fe4a6a5527539304179048bf20269 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 5f74398bf9e65ea1aa61c9a843a88f98700ccab7 (diff) | |
| download | current-16ac9d3a43867e3a389c4459e8d2cd01b7cc13ed.tar.gz | |
Fri Nov 12 19:19:46 UTC 202120211112191946
a/kernel-generic-5.15.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.15.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.15.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/sysvinit-scripts-15.0-noarch-7.txz: Rebuilt.
rc.M: adjust the startup order to make sure a few services are running when
needed (such as MariaDB for dovecot and postfix). Thanks to Tshane.
ap/ksh93-20211112_d160abc-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Don't assume that /bin/sh mode is desired when ksh is run from su.
Thanks to McDutchie.
ap/lxc-4.0.11-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Move the bash-completion symlinks to the system directory. Thanks to kaott.
d/kernel-headers-5.15.2-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.15.2-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/pipewire-0.3.40-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/s-nail-14.9.23-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 a8d46e3d..7e34819f 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Sat Nov 6 20:15:07 UTC 2021 +Fri Nov 12 19:05:07 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 5.15.1 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.15.2 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-5.15.1-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.15.1-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.15.2-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.15.2-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-26.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 5.15.1 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.2 -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 5.15.1 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.15.2 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.1 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.2 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |