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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2022-04-21 19:11:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2022-04-22 06:59:46 +0200 |
| commit | aba57b8fb048fb6eac847e18978b0b8fd5729721 (patch) | |
| tree | 625c8636efe0249edd5cec5d50b60a4e6836f077 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 615523f1128f2b40168434af4e8e00e95136fa71 (diff) | |
| download | current-aba57b8fb048fb6eac847e18978b0b8fd5729721.tar.gz | |
Thu Apr 21 19:11:10 UTC 202220220421191110
a/kernel-firmware-20220419_ee43979-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-5.17.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.17.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.17.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/mcelog-181-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/pciutils-3.8.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/git-2.36.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.17.4-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.17.4-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/fribidi-1.0.12-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/parted-3.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/pipewire-0.3.50-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Build in FFmpeg and Vulkan support. Thanks to Klaatu.
n/bind-9.18.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/postfix-3.7.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/libinput-1.20.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/mozilla-thunderbird-91.8.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This is a bugfix release.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/91.8.1/releasenotes/
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.initrd')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 3fcaefb1..70f53453 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Apr 13 20:35:48 UTC 2022 +Thu Apr 21 18:54:07 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 5.17.3 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.17.4 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-5.17.3-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.17.3-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.17.4-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.17.4-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-28.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 5.17.3 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.17.4 -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 5.17.3 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.17.4 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.17.3 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.17.4 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |