From 9ebd346711497d3ae7d6cae7f7f304e89fdaf116 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick J Volkerding Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 20:09:37 +0000 Subject: Wed Jan 5 20:09:37 UTC 2022 a/aaa_libraries-15.0-x86_64-12.txz: Rebuilt. Upgraded: libcap.so.2.62, libelf-0.186.so, libzstd.so.1.5.1, libcares.so.2.5.1, libexpat.so.1.8.2, libglib-2.0.so.0.7000.2, libgmodule-2.0.so.0.7000.2, libgobject-2.0.so.0.7000.2, libgthread-2.0.so.0.7000.2, libpcre2-8.so.0.10.4. Added: libunwind.so.8.0.1 (thanks to Jeebizz). a/kernel-generic-5.15.13-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-huge-5.15.13-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-5.15.13-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/doxygen-1.9.3-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt. Fix manpage versions, build and install docs. Thanks to duncan_roe. d/kernel-headers-5.15.13-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. k/kernel-source-5.15.13-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. l/libuv-1.43.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/pipewire-0.3.43-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Remove redundant .sample files on package upgrade. When disabling pipewire, toss the .desktop files and keep the .sample files if both exist. Added missing X-KDE-autostart-phase=1 to pipewire-pulse.desktop.sample. Thanks to ZhaoLin1457. n/curl-7.81.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. x/fcitx-qt5-1.2.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt. kernels/*: Upgraded. usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt. --- README.initrd | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.initrd') diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 70658e57..1fe5c264 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Dec 29 20:20:19 UTC 2021 +Wed Jan 5 19:47:19 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 5.15.12 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.15.13 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-5.15.12-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.15.12-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.15.13-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.15.13-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-26.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 5.15.12 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.13 -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 5.15.12 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.15.13 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.12 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.13 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? -- cgit v1.2.3