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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-05-11 19:35:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-05-12 08:59:55 +0200 |
| commit | 9de0cccc1bd4daf0725ce6f384f57484fd5b4774 (patch) | |
| tree | c62533eeec0125883adad63750b92ffa3f813579 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 69b6e95b3fd05a34488b98fe3f28e534fd7207b0 (diff) | |
| download | current-9de0cccc1bd4daf0725ce6f384f57484fd5b4774.tar.gz | |
Tue May 11 19:35:17 UTC 202120210511193517
a/btrfs-progs-5.12-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/hdparm-9.62-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-5.10.36-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.10.36-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.10.36-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.10.36-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/meson-0.58.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Applied upstream fix for GNOME projects failing to build.
Some projects still require an adjustment to implicit_include_directories.
k/kernel-source-5.10.36-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/elfutils-0.184-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/glib2-2.68.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/libtirpc-1.3.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/snownews-1.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 8caf579d..b001d1be 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Sat May 8 00:06:07 UTC 2021 +Tue May 11 19:23:30 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 5.10.35 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.10.36 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-5.10.35-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.35-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.10.36-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.36-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 5.10.35 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.36 -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 5.10.35 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.10.36 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.35 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.36 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |