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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2022-02-11 20:36:58 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2022-02-12 00:39:50 +0100 |
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index dff75d4a5..376755524 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Feb 10 00:21:38 UTC 2022 +Fri Feb 11 20:20:55 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 5.16.8 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.16.9 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-5.16.8-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.16.8-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.16.9-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.16.9-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 5.16.8 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.16.9 -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 5.16.8 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.16.9 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.16.8 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.16.9 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |