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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2018-11-14 00:00:07 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2018-11-14 08:59:46 +0100 |
| commit | e10adef4c2a06f02cd4970f0f6459c27e840f772 (patch) | |
| tree | a8686f5f485fe72c2cac0bec34516a183e6c6043 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 2520b90f18ab408818b967f77ef38c1be85de634 (diff) | |
| download | current-20181114000007.tar.gz current-20181114000007.tar.xz | |
Wed Nov 14 00:00:07 UTC 201820181114000007
a/aaa_terminfo-6.1_20181110-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-4.19.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.19.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-4.19.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/vim-8.1.0526-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Don't package .desktop files for the base vim package.
Move the terminal-based vim.desktop (menu clutter) into the docs directory.
d/kernel-headers-4.19.2-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-4.19.2-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/librsvg-2.44.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/ncurses-6.1_20181110-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
The new kernel fixes the artifact on the virtual console, so the original
linux terminal definition has been restored.
xap/vim-gvim-8.1.0526-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Let vim install its own icon and gvim.desktop files. Thanks to drumz.
Don't include the terminal-based vim.desktop file.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index f7d2ac126..8d7b02b7f 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Sun Nov 4 19:17:58 UTC 2018 +Tue Nov 13 22:36:16 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 4.19.1 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 4.19.2 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-4.19.1-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.1-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-4.19.2-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.2-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 4.19.1 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.2 -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 4.19.1 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.19.2 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.1 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.2 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |