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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-07-07 20:50:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-07-08 08:59:51 +0200 |
| commit | 5e02aeb300411d9268651804db7d2765cb176b4d (patch) | |
| tree | a61ca5b41b80134440e62911667cb28100ffb84e /README.initrd | |
| parent | 9ec807270408426f344cc14e5c3d82368d5c1d09 (diff) | |
| download | current-5e02aeb300411d9268651804db7d2765cb176b4d.tar.gz | |
Wed Jul 7 20:50:57 UTC 202120210707205057
a/kernel-generic-5.12.15-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.12.15-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.12.15-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/libbytesize-2.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/mcelog-177-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.12.15-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/ruby-3.0.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes bugs and security issues:
Trusting FTP PASV responses vulnerability in Net::FTP.
StartTLS stripping vulnerability in Net::IMAP.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-31810
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-32066
(* Security fix *)
k/kernel-source-5.12.15-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/python-pillow-8.3.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.13.x/kernel-generic-5.13.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.13.x/kernel-headers-5.13.1-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.13.x/kernel-huge-5.13.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.13.x/kernel-modules-5.13.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.13.x/kernel-source-5.13.1-noarch-1.txz: 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 46de5045..2fdf18c2 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Jun 30 18:18:08 UTC 2021 +Wed Jul 7 20:12:22 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 5.12.14 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.12.15 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-5.12.14-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.12.14-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.12.15-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.12.15-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 5.12.14 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.12.15 -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 5.12.14 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.12.15 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.12.14 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.12.15 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |