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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-04-14 19:46:47 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-04-15 08:59:33 +0200 |
| commit | 32353d1a5338767d5c5bbd5c99bc0969cd901a5a (patch) | |
| tree | 107ee6d0dc4cb75669323d77be4d70cc8b5d912f /README.initrd | |
| parent | 0f26a90fcf3a69c04ddf31b6fe4868242d5679fc (diff) | |
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Wed Apr 14 19:46:47 UTC 202120210414194647
a/kernel-generic-5.10.30-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.10.30-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.10.30-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-22.txz: Rebuilt.
When / is on LVM, include the dm-snapshot module. Thanks to I.G.O.R.
d/kernel-headers-5.10.30-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.10.30-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/mlt-6.26.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/oniguruma-6.9.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/sg3_utils-1.46-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/curl-7.76.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.11.x/kernel-generic-5.11.14-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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testing/packages/linux-5.11.x/kernel-huge-5.11.14-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.11.x/kernel-modules-5.11.14-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.11.x/kernel-source-5.11.14-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index df31a3ba4..04f075d8a 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Sun Apr 11 19:49:47 UTC 2021 +Wed Apr 14 18:42:05 UTC 2021 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 5.10.29 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.10.30 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-5.10.29-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.29-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.10.30-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.30-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-21.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 5.10.29 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.30 -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 5.10.29 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.10.30 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.29 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.30 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |