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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2019-03-05 22:54:06 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2019-03-06 08:59:47 +0100 |
| commit | 3795d8d3c2a562a61c9a35d2dc839405700f3044 (patch) | |
| tree | 18de662dd14a91e7967b941e13a05e2921546c14 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 490bd1ff02b9d0e37a0aec334c1be80d54ed3ab6 (diff) | |
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Tue Mar 5 22:54:06 UTC 201920190305225406
a/hwdata-0.321-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-4.19.27-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.19.27-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-4.19.27-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-4.19.27-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-4.19.27-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/M2Crypto-0.32.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/imagemagick-6.9.10_32-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/dovecot-2.3.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xdm-1.1.11-x86_64-9.txz: Rebuilt.
Reverted to xdm-1.1.11, as the new release after 7 years has some issues.
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 6dfa3e6b1..f1764bd19 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Feb 27 22:13:01 UTC 2019 +Tue Mar 5 22:27:59 UTC 2019 This document describes how to create and install an initrd, which may be required to use the 4.x kernel. Also see "man mkinitrd". @@ -33,16 +33,16 @@ 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 4.19.26 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 4.19.27 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-4.19.26-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.26-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-11.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-4.19.27-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.27-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-12.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 4.19.26 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.27 -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 4.19.26 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.19.27 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.26 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.27 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |