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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2023-03-22 20:22:25 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2023-03-22 22:37:07 +0100 |
commit | 98045b7b19ef150b864f97a1a987682d61e348a8 (patch) | |
tree | 8e40e18b027f2bf9abbc5d2666f6a2df565d7bb5 /README.initrd | |
parent | 6b6caf66ba2adca3cda2fb7b9a739fbf08d5aeba (diff) | |
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a/coreutils-9.2-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Don't link with OpenSSL's libcrypto, as it creates problems on machines that
don't yet have openssl3 installed when /bin/sort suddenly depends upon
libcrypto.so.3. Worked fine without this previously, so it shouldn't really
make any difference. There's also a configure option to use the kernel's
crypto routines if available, but for now we'll skip this.
Thanks to rahrah.
a/kernel-firmware-20230320_bcdcfbc-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-6.1.21-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-6.1.21-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-6.1.21-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-6.1.21-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-6.1.21-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/adwaita-icon-theme-44.0-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/gpgme-1.19.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/links-2.29-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
t/texlive-2023.230322-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Thanks to Johannes Schoepfer.
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 0bc831823..3f560238c 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Fri Mar 17 19:47:04 UTC 2023 +Wed Mar 22 20:04:55 UTC 2023 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 6.1.20 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 6.1.21 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-6.1.20-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.20-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-6.1.21-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.21-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-31.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 6.1.20 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.21 -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 6.1.20 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 6.1.21 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.20 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.21 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |