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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-05-08 00:24:32 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-05-08 08:59:55 +0200 |
| commit | 83868622a733d0511241fe4bac84516caf3319db (patch) | |
| tree | ca723c36434dd2df0356289ed50e25df43e53a70 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 33a4866bfe2f2c0cb2798db73596ce9cd43f523a (diff) | |
| download | current-83868622a733d0511241fe4bac84516caf3319db.tar.gz current-83868622a733d0511241fe4bac84516caf3319db.tar.xz | |
Sat May 8 00:24:32 UTC 202120210508002432
a/kernel-generic-5.10.35-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.10.35-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.10.35-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/lvm2-2.03.12-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/mariadb-10.5.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/mpg123-1.27.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.10.35-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.10.35-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/httpd-2.4.46-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Reverted to httpd-2.4.46. Apparently 2.4.47 isn't actually released yet.
Sorry for any problems this caused.
xfce/thunar-4.16.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.12.x/kernel-generic-5.12.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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testing/packages/linux-5.12.x/kernel-source-5.12.2-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 2d433b6e8..8caf579d1 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Sun May 2 19:23:04 UTC 2021 +Sat May 8 00:06:07 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 5.10.34 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.10.35 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-5.10.34-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.34-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.10.35-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.35-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-24.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 5.10.34 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.35 -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 5.10.34 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.10.35 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.34 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.35 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |