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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2018-08-04 07:38:34 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2018-08-04 21:00:37 +0200 |
| commit | a5d7f5b9eb10c91891a9fef0821727e856883b81 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b0ac06d64949ad0229a6b6f9d363e94241b33ca /README.initrd | |
| parent | 564ec5a0ace4d77efaa63cccd7f542a454022b6d (diff) | |
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Sat Aug 4 07:38:34 UTC 201820180804073834
a/dbus-1.12.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-4.14.60-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.14.60-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-4.14.60-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-4.14.60-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/mercurial-4.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/rust-1.28.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-4.14.60-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/blueman-2.0.6-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Allow users in the netdev group to make changes.
Thanks to voleg, kgha, and zakame.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
testing/packages/glibc-2.28-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Fixed compile issues when linking with libpthread.
testing/packages/glibc-i18n-2.28-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
testing/packages/glibc-profile-2.28-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
testing/packages/glibc-solibs-2.28-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index c3a187633..60fdac141 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Sun Jul 29 07:20:08 UTC 2018 +Sat Aug 4 06:13:05 UTC 2018 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 4.14.59 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 4.14.60 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-4.14.59-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-4.14.59-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-4.14.60-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-4.14.60-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-8.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 4.14.59 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.14.60 -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 4.14.59 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.14.60 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 4.14.59 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.14.60 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |