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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2022-08-21 18:58:29 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2022-08-22 01:00:18 +0200 |
commit | 2f2ecd3ca0c65ea6d3c2acdd43fd0478d6c8e15d (patch) | |
tree | df03ec66fe0fe7c1b4f30098b2fda5c6f19722bb /README.initrd | |
parent | 2dbea3b2b0e597fa1e3fa37fbb2f250168112559 (diff) | |
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a/kernel-generic-5.19.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.19.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.19.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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d/kernel-headers-5.19.3-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/libtool-2.4.7-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled to update embedded GCC version number.
d/python-setuptools-65.1.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Make libdir = platlib to agree with the paths in python3.
k/kernel-source-5.19.3-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
xfce/xfce4-panel-4.16.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xfce/xfdesktop-4.16.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
/etc/rc.d/rc.S: Added support for setting the Installer's root password
from a kernel cmdline key value pair: instrootpw=yourpassword
This is intended for network installations where otherwise the root password
would be unset. Note: this does not configure the OS root password.
Thanks to Stuart Winter.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
/etc/rc.d/rc.S: Added support for setting the Installer's root password
from a kernel cmdline key value pair: instrootpw=yourpassword
This is intended for network installations where otherwise the root password
would be unset. Note: this does not configure the OS root password.
Thanks to Stuart Winter.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index e285d679..0833f985 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Aug 17 20:21:25 UTC 2022 +Sun Aug 21 18:44:44 UTC 2022 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 5.19.2 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.19.3 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-5.19.2-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.19.2-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.19.3-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.19.3-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-30.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 5.19.2 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.19.3 -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 5.19.2 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.19.3 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.19.2 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.19.3 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |