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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-01-17 23:48:59 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-01-18 08:59:51 +0100 |
| commit | 16c4108efdee84a002fc181f54191cc5a98e82fc (patch) | |
| tree | f0eb8d3e0657384d5f9c17c66f98d551607e85c4 /README.initrd | |
| parent | cdbbea4bb74a0bfd04f1484609c725d222b40abd (diff) | |
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index be298563d..18f99f9c8 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Tue Jan 12 22:09:57 UTC 2021 +Sun Jan 17 23:39:29 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". @@ -33,16 +33,16 @@ 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 5.10.7 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.10.8 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-5.10.7-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.7-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-16.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.10.8-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.8-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-17.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 5.10.7 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.8 -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 5.10.7 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.10.8 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.7 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.8 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |