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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-08-26 23:13:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-08-27 08:59:55 +0200 |
| commit | a685863802fc9764aefd5b07106f3e3e54b210a3 (patch) | |
| tree | eb2e4138cd7c6743878c97ea61e81d51a01a7b98 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 870839f17971c34028003e9b8e2f6a1f7ac500b0 (diff) | |
| download | current-a685863802fc9764aefd5b07106f3e3e54b210a3.tar.gz | |
Thu Aug 26 23:13:18 UTC 202120210826231318
a/kernel-generic-5.13.13-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.13.13-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.13.13-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.13.13-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.13.13-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/iso-codes-4.7.0-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/pipewire-0.3.34-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/seamonkey-2.53.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update contains security fixes and improvements.
For more information, see:
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.9
(* Security fix *)
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 9b4114a9..dc894530 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Aug 19 05:07:09 UTC 2021 +Thu Aug 26 23:03:32 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 5.13.12 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.13.13 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-5.13.12-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.13.12-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.13.13-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.13.13-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-25.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 5.13.12 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.13.13 -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 5.13.12 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.13.13 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.13.12 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.13.13 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |