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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2018-11-24 20:44:07 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2018-11-25 08:59:43 +0100 |
| commit | 6b0434cfef488f332faad7efd1359d5f07b02a49 (patch) | |
| tree | 91d2f8553617c5a33ab7abb899ced54559cf74cb /README.initrd | |
| parent | 8a98ceb6bd8b2b73b4b386e6435862f51ddb197e (diff) | |
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Sat Nov 24 20:44:07 UTC 201820181124204407
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index cb1577fc5..237dd4a59 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Nov 22 05:27:51 UTC 2018 +Fri Nov 23 22:11:18 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 4.19.3 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 4.19.4 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-4.19.3-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.3-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-4.19.4-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.4-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 4.19.3 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.4 -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 4.19.3 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.19.4 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.3 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.4 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |