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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2020-10-07 21:14:35 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-10-08 08:59:53 +0200 |
| commit | d9d3692e2b144d38d5cff9979b33442d90de51e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 65d24e395eecdf11b97047b07abffae5c93443f0 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 81b029fe626a7bf243ef2f31f3270d351428c822 (diff) | |
| download | current-d9d3692e2b144d38d5cff9979b33442d90de51e3.tar.gz current-d9d3692e2b144d38d5cff9979b33442d90de51e3.tar.xz | |
Wed Oct 7 21:14:35 UTC 202020201007211435
a/hwdata-0.340-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-5.4.70-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.4.70-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.4.70-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/mariadb-10.5.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15180
(* Security fix *)
ap/nano-5.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/cmake-3.18.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.4.70-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.4.70-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/jasper-2.0.22-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
For more information, see:
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-15-529
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19541
(* Security fix *)
x/libinput-1.16.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xkeyboard-config-2.31-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/mozilla-thunderbird-78.3.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This is a bugfix release.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/78.3.2/releasenotes/
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 7bfe3a184..062728b08 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Oct 1 20:44:39 UTC 2020 +Wed Oct 7 21:05:24 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 5.4.69 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.4.70 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-5.4.69-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.69-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.70-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.70-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 5.4.69 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.70 -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 5.4.69 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.70 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.69 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.70 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |