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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2020-02-06 01:59:35 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-02-06 08:59:47 +0100 |
| commit | 194ec853e8f20fd32d5a91eec74ff77383093f4e (patch) | |
| tree | 44c5392ff2bffceadf4c0b62e675c4d35744100c /README.initrd | |
| parent | bc237eb78dd4cf07fb2b080666bf32e46bc7ba9a (diff) | |
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Thu Feb 6 01:59:35 UTC 202020200206015935
a/hwdata-0.332-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-firmware-20200204_b791e15-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-5.4.18-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.4.18-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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d/cmake-3.16.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 098765abd..801e1b347 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Sat Feb 1 21:59:45 UTC 2020 +Thu Feb 6 01:37:10 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 5.4.17 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.4.18 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-5.4.17-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.17-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.18-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.18-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 5.4.17 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.18 -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 5.4.17 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.18 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.17 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.18 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |