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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2024-06-12 21:12:05 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2024-06-13 00:24:04 +0200 |
| commit | 5b33f8b326d5fafafe68c20eac1704e6ca591f06 (patch) | |
| tree | 08d2512eb9d9533f755d42c429fcb3d4afdc5824 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 9aefad1034c54d609a34ce93e5a0f1bf17d3d96b (diff) | |
| download | current-5b33f8b326d5fafafe68c20eac1704e6ca591f06.tar.gz current-5b33f8b326d5fafafe68c20eac1704e6ca591f06.tar.xz | |
Wed Jun 12 21:12:05 UTC 202420240612211205
a/kernel-firmware-20240612_776320a-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-6.9.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-6.9.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-6.9.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/tcsh-6.24.13-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-6.9.4-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/mercurial-6.7.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/pahole-1.27-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Upgraded to libbpf-1.4.3 and pahole-1.27.
d/ruby-3.3.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-6.9.4-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libxml2-2.12.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libxslt-1.1.40-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/freeglut-3.6.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/libwacom-2.12.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/mozilla-thunderbird-127.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This release contains security fixes and improvements.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/127.0/releasenotes/
(* Security fix *)
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 79ac35909..bc6fde2fd 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu May 30 18:22:38 UTC 2024 +Wed Jun 12 20:58:28 UTC 2024 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 6.9.3 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 6.9.4 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-6.9.3-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-6.9.3-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-6.9.4-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-6.9.4-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-34.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 6.9.3 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.9.4 -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 6.9.3 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 6.9.4 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 6.9.3 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.9.4 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |