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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2020-02-24 20:56:07 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-02-25 08:59:50 +0100 |
| commit | df650029f8edc1f5df71b47ec85c0807e54e5434 (patch) | |
| tree | b6013d4fdf903f11781554dea81fd8f7e8269cb5 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 68395436ce762ae02925b4b8cfe0aeb10d72f09a (diff) | |
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Mon Feb 24 20:56:07 UTC 202020200224205607
a/kernel-firmware-20200224_efcfa03-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-5.4.22-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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Rebuilt with -DBUILD_WSI_WAYLAND_SUPPORT=On. Thanks to mumahendras3.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index ec40ed6ca..7db702d9b 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Feb 20 04:28:43 UTC 2020 +Mon Feb 24 20:29:50 UTC 2020 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 5.4.21 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.4.22 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-5.4.21-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.21-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.22-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.22-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-14.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 5.4.21 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.22 -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 5.4.21 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.22 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.21 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.22 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |