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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2018-11-04 19:45:38 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2018-11-05 08:59:43 +0100 |
| commit | 243141c37dcbe4b5714d524e2397660c54691b5d (patch) | |
| tree | 45914fffd3d6f8039a8d97068cece78d05f96dda /README.initrd | |
| parent | 0dada1b8719e049f5e3d73034824296a89c4506f (diff) | |
| download | current-243141c37dcbe4b5714d524e2397660c54691b5d.tar.gz current-243141c37dcbe4b5714d524e2397660c54691b5d.tar.xz | |
Sun Nov 4 19:45:38 UTC 201820181104194538
a/btrfs-progs-v4.19-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/haveged-1.9.4-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
rc.haveged: eliminate startup noise.
a/kernel-generic-4.19.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.19.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-4.19.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/cmake-3.12.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-4.19.1-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-4.19.1-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
Temporarily build in speakup drivers until the modular ones are fixed.
Thanks to Didier Spaier.
SPEAKUP m -> y
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_ACNTPC m -> y
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_ACNTSA m -> y
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_APOLLO m -> y
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_AUDPTR m -> y
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_BNS m -> y
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DECEXT m -> y
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DECTLK m -> y
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DTLK m -> y
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DUMMY m -> y
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_KEYPC m -> y
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_LTLK m -> y
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SOFT m -> y
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SPKOUT m -> y
SPEAKUP_SYNTH_TXPRT m -> y
l/alsa-lib-1.1.7-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Fixed PCM interval. Thanks to aaditya.
l/xapian-core-1.4.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: 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 a6f19bd71..f7d2ac126 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Tue Oct 23 04:14:40 UTC 2018 +Sun Nov 4 19:17:58 UTC 2018 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 4.19.0 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 4.19.1 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-4.19.0-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.0-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-4.19.1-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.1-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-8.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 4.19.0 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.1 -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 4.19.0 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.19.1 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.0 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.1 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |