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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2022-03-02 21:39:57 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2022-03-03 06:59:45 +0100 |
| commit | f6c972c2e5b83b47cccd3bc0451b5dd23ba117d8 (patch) | |
| tree | faec78c9b1219cce1969f079d03621c230a18363 /README.initrd | |
| parent | ffd548b099c715ca0e169b2e33a41933620204e2 (diff) | |
| download | current-f6c972c2e5b83b47cccd3bc0451b5dd23ba117d8.tar.gz current-f6c972c2e5b83b47cccd3bc0451b5dd23ba117d8.tar.xz | |
Wed Mar 2 21:39:57 UTC 202220220302213957
a/kernel-generic-5.16.12-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.16.12-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.16.12-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.16.12-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.16.12-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
kde/digikam-7.6.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/accountsservice-22.08.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/seamonkey-2.53.11-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update contains security fixes and improvements.
For more information, see:
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.11
(* Security fix *)
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.initrd')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.initrd | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 29fa0cbeb..4c5825bfa 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Feb 24 05:34:06 UTC 2022 +Wed Mar 2 21:25:48 UTC 2022 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 5.16.11 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.16.12 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-5.16.11-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.16.11-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.16.12-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.16.12-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-28.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 5.16.11 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.16.12 -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 5.16.11 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.16.12 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.16.11 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.16.12 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |