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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2023-09-20 00:08:45 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2023-09-20 03:08:36 +0200 |
| commit | 16d0eba8e310ec334df12ce4ea61ea375baa6ecc (patch) | |
| tree | 88806af2f3cc7df0f4d0c6c0216e921bac5737fd /README.initrd | |
| parent | 9191658382bcc955e2a3209799dd405f6f523442 (diff) | |
| download | current-16d0eba8e310ec334df12ce4ea61ea375baa6ecc.tar.gz current-16d0eba8e310ec334df12ce4ea61ea375baa6ecc.tar.xz | |
Wed Sep 20 00:08:45 UTC 202320230920000845
a/gettext-0.22.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-firmware-20230918_3672cca-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-6.1.54-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-6.1.54-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-6.1.54-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/openssl-solibs-3.1.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/ghostscript-10.02.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
[PATCH] PDF interpreter - fix PageList processing.
Thanks to denydias.
d/gettext-tools-0.22.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-6.1.54-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-6.1.54-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/dconf-editor-45.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/harfbuzz-8.2.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/nodejs-20.7.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/openssl-3.1.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes bugs and a security issue that does not affect Linux:
Fix POLY1305 MAC implementation corrupting XMM registers on Windows.
For more information, see:
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4807
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
testing/packages/rust-1.72.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.initrd')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.initrd | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index bd185239f..13052d21a 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Sep 14 01:37:23 UTC 2023 +Tue Sep 19 23:56:19 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 6.1.53 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 6.1.54 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-6.1.53-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.53-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-6.1.54-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.54-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-33.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 6.1.53 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.54 -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 6.1.53 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 6.1.54 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.53 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.54 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |