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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-07-14 17:57:37 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-07-15 00:00:46 +0200 |
| commit | a5c7f74c57c8159bdc2580c9792c75a723bf66c1 (patch) | |
| tree | 719e841476349f6353d0d7739008bee407764ab1 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 9a1642993e87ad9ab0401f7d7b88957e387f5e28 (diff) | |
| download | current-a5c7f74c57c8159bdc2580c9792c75a723bf66c1.tar.gz current-a5c7f74c57c8159bdc2580c9792c75a723bf66c1.tar.xz | |
Wed Jul 14 17:57:37 UTC 202120210714175737
a/kernel-generic-5.13.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.13.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.13.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.13.2-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.13.2-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/gnuchess-6.2.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/mozilla-thunderbird-78.12.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This release contains security fixes and improvements.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/78.12.0/releasenotes/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-30/
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-29969
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-29970
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-30547
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-29976
(* Security fix *)
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.initrd')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 21427eeef..d7430cccf 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Sun Jul 11 18:14:05 UTC 2021 +Wed Jul 14 17:39:56 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 5.12.16 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.13.2 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-5.12.16-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.12.16-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.13.2-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.13.2-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 5.12.16 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.13.2 -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 5.12.16 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.13.2 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.12.16 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.13.2 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |