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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2023-12-11 22:18:13 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2023-12-12 00:13:38 +0100 |
commit | b04af892853e58c426e27bff4f0acbcd3d524f06 (patch) | |
tree | e9533c5926d3af95babd530c517d5940d6efe9b7 /README.initrd | |
parent | 523624d48084b79e858d4b62b68dd5335ad70232 (diff) | |
download | current-b04af892853e58c426e27bff4f0acbcd3d524f06.tar.gz current-b04af892853e58c426e27bff4f0acbcd3d524f06.tar.xz |
Mon Dec 11 22:18:13 UTC 202320231211221813
We've gone ahead and moved the 6.6 kernel into the main tree. As previously
mentioned when this branch first appeared in /testing, on the 32-bit side
there are no longer any -smp labeled kernel packages, so if you were using
those previously, you'll need to switch to using to kernel-generic or
kernel-huge kernel, including the changes needed to your bootloader setup to
load this instead of the -smp labeled kernel. Also, if you happen to be using
a first generation Pentium M chip, you will need to append forcepae to your
kernel command-line options. Enjoy! :-)
a/kernel-firmware-20231211_f2e52a1-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-6.6.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-6.6.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-6.6.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/qpdf-11.6.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-6.6.6-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-6.6.6-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/imagemagick-7.1.1_23-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libsecret-0.21.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Thanks to reddog83 and saxa.
l/zxing-cpp-2.2.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/postfix-3.8.3-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
OpenSSL upstream says that major versions are ABI/API compatible, so stop
warning in the logs that they might not be.
Thanks to gildbg and Markus Wiesner.
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 1cfa288ac..f79537929 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Fri Dec 8 21:44:31 UTC 2023 +Mon Dec 11 20:13:31 UTC 2023 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 6.1.66 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 6.6.6 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-6.1.66-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.66-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-6.6.6-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-6.6.6-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-34.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 6.1.66 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.6.6 -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 6.1.66 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 6.6.6 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.66 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.6.6 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |