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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2023-09-03 04:27:04 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2023-09-03 07:09:09 +0200 |
| commit | 34150f47ee1ea9ba191b255bb9aecd9aba26a832 (patch) | |
| tree | 23b74d4ff264e124fa2d46cf540ca89a030f43b5 /README.initrd | |
| parent | fc45e1f612005e305ecbbfd5b4cdd62c26619ebc (diff) | |
| download | current-34150f47ee1ea9ba191b255bb9aecd9aba26a832.tar.gz current-34150f47ee1ea9ba191b255bb9aecd9aba26a832.tar.xz | |
Sun Sep 3 04:27:04 UTC 202320230903042704
a/dbus-1.14.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-firmware-20230901_bb4f658-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-6.1.51-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-6.1.51-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-6.1.51-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/pkgtools-15.1-noarch-7.txz: Rebuilt.
pkgtool: Make the "Setup" menu (rerun selected installer scripts) larger.
Thanks to Stuart Winter.
ap/alsa-utils-1.2.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-6.1.51-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/strace-6.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-6.1.51-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/SDL2-2.28.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/alsa-lib-1.2.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/at-spi2-core-2.48.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/gmime-3.2.14-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libgphoto2-2.5.31-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xfce/thunar-4.18.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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 b1eb050f5..ead9843d9 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Aug 30 20:01:11 UTC 2023 +Sun Sep 3 04:14:42 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 6.1.50 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 6.1.51 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-6.1.50-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.50-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-6.1.51-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.51-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 6.1.50 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.51 -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 6.1.50 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 6.1.51 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.50 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.51 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |