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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2024-02-16 20:18:59 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2024-02-16 22:05:09 +0100 |
| commit | 68034e96e4f776bbb90ad0aac20df91c51602715 (patch) | |
| tree | dcd0392aeca2ae37349762d2057f04294a47c86d /README.initrd | |
| parent | ca8d589d9fb552cb0ef93ab298840bffd87985a6 (diff) | |
| download | current-68034e96e4f776bbb90ad0aac20df91c51602715.tar.gz current-68034e96e4f776bbb90ad0aac20df91c51602715.tar.xz | |
Fri Feb 16 20:18:59 UTC 202420240216201859
a/kernel-generic-6.6.17-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-6.6.17-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-6.6.17-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/soma-3.3.7-noarch-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Strip trailing whitespace from soma.desktop. Thanks to DryFalls.
d/kernel-headers-6.6.17-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-6.6.17-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/mozilla-nss-3.98-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/ca-certificates-20240216-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update provides the latest CA certificates to check for the
authenticity of SSL connections.
x/ibus-m17n-1.4.28-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 b81a41a85..40ff3721a 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Feb 8 22:05:09 UTC 2024 +Fri Feb 16 20:09:03 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 6.6.16 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 6.6.17 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-6.6.16-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-6.6.16-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-6.6.17-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-6.6.17-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 6.6.16 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.6.17 -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 6.6.16 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 6.6.17 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 6.6.16 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.6.17 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |