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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-12-17 20:47:13 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-12-18 08:59:54 +0100 |
| commit | 93a272f6d5fbe8ad33deccffedc172e527b7c329 (patch) | |
| tree | 81e783718303036a029169945e97c86317a5b154 /README.initrd | |
| parent | d5c267841ae969914a7a7d3265d40931171c2f44 (diff) | |
| download | current-93a272f6d5fbe8ad33deccffedc172e527b7c329.tar.gz current-93a272f6d5fbe8ad33deccffedc172e527b7c329.tar.xz | |
Fri Dec 17 20:47:13 UTC 202120211217204713
a/kernel-generic-5.15.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.15.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.15.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/inxi-3.3.11_1-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/ksh93-1.0_20211217_ce3e080c-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/neofetch-20211210_ccd5d9f5-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/Cython-0.29.26-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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l/utf8proc-2.7.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/ca-certificates-20211216-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update provides the latest CA certificates to check for the
authenticity of SSL connections.
xap/xine-ui-0.99.13-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index f6fd8c62a..e763f53c2 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Dec 16 21:05:38 UTC 2021 +Fri Dec 17 20:38:03 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 5.15.9 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.15.10 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-5.15.9-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.15.9-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.15.10-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.15.10-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-26.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 5.15.9 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.10 -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 5.15.9 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.15.10 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.9 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.10 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |