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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2023-12-20 21:10:47 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2023-12-20 23:06:42 +0100 |
| commit | 9798eebe58316437a0bf67e9c99a6d415d346ee7 (patch) | |
| tree | ccdae16a2a62ca5546767d9e5148cd50e176a077 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 90c1d5c2c0b15a877ad7b260895a7815bdd4d03c (diff) | |
| download | current-9798eebe58316437a0bf67e9c99a6d415d346ee7.tar.gz current-9798eebe58316437a0bf67e9c99a6d415d346ee7.tar.xz | |
Wed Dec 20 21:10:47 UTC 202320231220211047
a/kernel-firmware-20231215_c156e6b-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-6.6.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-6.6.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-6.6.8-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-6.6.8-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-6.6.8-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/aspell-0.60.8.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libcap-ng-0.8.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Drop python2 support.
l/sof-firmware-2023.12-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/bind-9.18.21-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/proftpd-1.3.8b-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update fixes a security issue:
mod_sftp: implemented mitigations for "Terrapin" SSH attack.
For more information, see:
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-48795
(* Security fix *)
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.initrd')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index f27768d50..c3fe02564 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Dec 13 21:49:07 UTC 2023 +Wed Dec 20 20:04:59 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 6.6.7 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 6.6.8 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-6.6.7-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-6.6.7-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-6.6.8-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-6.6.8-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 6.6.7 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.6.8 -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 6.6.7 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 6.6.8 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 6.6.7 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.6.8 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |