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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2019-04-06 17:21:20 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2019-04-07 17:59:46 +0200 |
| commit | 262172ad7b61d5057e6278d3a485991c593632c9 (patch) | |
| tree | 970d6bfb65f1ce602ad68eb667170e59f956d773 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 5a7ce2ee4bcd9a1b23eaee34748e0f19cc1b1022 (diff) | |
| download | current-262172ad7b61d5057e6278d3a485991c593632c9.tar.gz current-262172ad7b61d5057e6278d3a485991c593632c9.tar.xz | |
Sat Apr 6 17:21:20 UTC 201920190406172120
a/kernel-generic-4.19.34-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.19.34-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-4.19.34-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-4.19.34-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-4.19.34-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
SPEAKUP y -> m
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_ACNTPC y -> m
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_ACNTSA y -> m
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_APOLLO y -> m
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_AUDPTR y -> m
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_BNS y -> m
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DECEXT y -> m
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DECTLK y -> m
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DTLK y -> m
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DUMMY y -> m
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_KEYPC y -> m
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_LTLK y -> m
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SOFT y -> m
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SPKOUT y -> m
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_TXPRT y -> m
Thanks to Didier Spaier.
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 140c3cf63..528ba0be9 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Apr 4 00:17:12 UTC 2019 +Sat Apr 6 03:38:34 UTC 2019 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 4.19.33 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 4.19.34 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-4.19.33-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.33-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-4.19.34-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.34-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-12.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 4.19.33 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.34 -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 4.19.33 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.19.34 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.33 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.34 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |