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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2022-08-01 23:30:59 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2022-08-02 09:00:16 +0200 |
| commit | 886a355a893951afa67e6f95616777980b700e7c (patch) | |
| tree | 05a4a9255094722bad3d194328c167deb307535d /README.initrd | |
| parent | 18570c2f3bedf7370815285dc11da0ebc401a5cd (diff) | |
| download | current-886a355a893951afa67e6f95616777980b700e7c.tar.gz current-886a355a893951afa67e6f95616777980b700e7c.tar.xz | |
Mon Aug 1 23:30:59 UTC 202220220801233059
a/cryptsetup-2.5.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Use file descriptor 3 in rc.luks's main loop so that sdtin works properly for
cryptsetup and/or a keyscript. PiterPunk gave it to me like this and then I
proceeded to break it. Sorry about that.
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 8d7053b0a..9b49fa302 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Fri Jul 29 19:31:35 UTC 2022 +Mon Aug 1 19:42:10 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 5.18.15 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.19 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-5.18.15-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.18.15-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.19.0-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.19.0-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-30.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 5.18.15 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.19 -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 5.18.15 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.19 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.18.15 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.19 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |