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author Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>2020-07-10 00:40:43 +0000
committer Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2020-07-10 08:59:48 +0200
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a/kernel-generic-5.4.51-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. +EFI_CUSTOM_SSDT_OVERLAYS y a/kernel-huge-5.4.51-x86_64-1.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 +EFI_CUSTOM_SSDT_OVERLAYS y a/kernel-modules-5.4.51-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. ap/vim-8.2.1167-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/Cython-0.29.21-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/kernel-headers-5.4.51-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. k/kernel-source-5.4.51-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. +EFI_CUSTOM_SSDT_OVERLAYS y n/gnupg2-2.2.21-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. x/mesa-20.1.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. xap/mozilla-firefox-78.0.2esr-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. This release contains a security fix and improvements. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/78.0.2/releasenotes/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-28/ (* Security fix *) xap/vim-gvim-8.2.1167-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt. Speakup is included as modules which will need to be loaded manually, for now at least. kernels/*: Upgraded. usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt. Speakup is included as modules which will need to be loaded manually, for now at least.
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Slackware initrd mini HOWTO
by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com
-Wed Jul 1 19:01:18 UTC 2020
+Fri Jul 10 00:25:42 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 5.4.50 Linux kernel using the packages
+upgrading to the generic 5.4.51 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-5.4.50-x86_64-1.txz
- installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.50-x86_64-1.txz
+ installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.51-x86_64-1.txz
+ installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.51-x86_64-1.txz
installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-15.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 5.4.50 -m ext4
+ mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.51 -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 5.4.50
+Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.51
kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3:
- mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.50 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3
+ mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.51 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3
4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it?