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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-11-18 21:13:10 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-11-19 08:59:57 +0100 |
commit | 061b63f432805072759263dfcb5fccddd52e5e4c (patch) | |
tree | 15b116cecc35365a8414b26aa975110c1ba37165 /README.initrd | |
parent | c73f45c6d4f48f70b96e052a5185fb146d532e59 (diff) | |
download | current-061b63f432805072759263dfcb5fccddd52e5e4c.tar.gz current-061b63f432805072759263dfcb5fccddd52e5e4c.tar.xz |
Thu Nov 18 21:13:10 UTC 202120211118211310
a/bash-5.1.012-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/cryptsetup-2.4.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-5.15.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.15.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.15.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/ccache-4.5.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.15.3-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.15.3-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
kde/latte-dock-0.10.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/php-7.4.26-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes bugs and a security issue:
XML: special character is breaking the path in xml function.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21707
(* Security fix *)
x/ibus-1.5.25-x86_64-5.txz: Rebuilt.
Fixed paths in:
[PATCH] client/gtk3/ibusimcontext: Fix wrong cursor location in gtk3 apps.
Thanks to Lockywolf.
xap/audacious-4.1-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Removed the extra menu entry for the GTK+ version as this can just be
selected in the settings. Thanks to franzen.
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 7e34819f0..43e77745a 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Fri Nov 12 19:05:07 UTC 2021 +Thu Nov 18 21:02:09 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 5.15.2 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.15.3 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-5.15.2-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.15.2-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.15.3-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.15.3-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 5.15.2 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.3 -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 5.15.2 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.15.3 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.2 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.3 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |