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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2018-08-07 05:51:28 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2018-08-07 21:52:45 +0200 |
| commit | 2f3a6405501b3de32999677153f1bcb2f96b74ed (patch) | |
| tree | 78701ba94de49f80ad2ab9f7650345d1cd5c0cd0 /README.initrd | |
| parent | a5d7f5b9eb10c91891a9fef0821727e856883b81 (diff) | |
| download | current-2f3a6405501b3de32999677153f1bcb2f96b74ed.tar.gz current-2f3a6405501b3de32999677153f1bcb2f96b74ed.tar.xz | |
Tue Aug 7 05:51:28 UTC 201820180807055128
a/kernel-generic-4.14.61-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.14.61-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-4.14.61-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/sysvinit-scripts-2.1-noarch-15.txz: Rebuilt.
rc.S: clean up files in /var/lib/pkgtools/setup/tmp. Thanks to burdi01.
ap/hplip-3.18.7-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched to fix libImageProcessor installation. Thanks to Matteo Bernardini.
d/kernel-headers-4.14.61-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-4.14.61-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/opus-1.3_rc-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/iputils-s20180629-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/mozilla-thunderbird-60.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This release contains security fixes and improvements.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/60.0/releasenotes/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird.html
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-19/
(* 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 60fdac141..b95f8512f 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Sat Aug 4 06:13:05 UTC 2018 +Tue Aug 7 05:24:25 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 4.14.60 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 4.14.61 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-4.14.60-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-4.14.60-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-4.14.61-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-4.14.61-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 4.14.60 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.14.61 -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 4.14.60 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.14.61 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 4.14.60 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.14.61 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |