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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-09-19 00:13:58 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-09-19 08:59:56 +0200 |
| commit | bcf11b40a875d66fb8c56b631d8065371f9338f7 (patch) | |
| tree | cc25f472cfa893cd2f60703dc981a8c7760c4c8a /README.initrd | |
| parent | b7cf3882dab7767651bfff1579436222c9a5fe59 (diff) | |
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Sun Sep 19 00:13:58 UTC 202120210919001358
a/kernel-generic-5.14.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.14.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.14.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/mpg123-1.29.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Add ../lib64/mpg123 to the module search path. Thanks to Pithium.
d/kernel-headers-5.14.6-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.14.6-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
PINCTRL_CANNONLAKE n -> m
Thanks to bassmadrigal.
kde/kstars-3.5.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libcap-2.58-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/bind-9.16.21-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
rc.bind: make sure /etc/rndc.key has correct ownership. Thanks to marav.
xfce/thunar-4.16.10-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 410e38a1f..038078dda 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Sep 16 18:15:25 UTC 2021 +Sat Sep 18 23:59:47 UTC 2021 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 5.14.5 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.14.6 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-5.14.5-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.14.5-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.14.6-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.14.6-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-25.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 5.14.5 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.14.6 -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 5.14.5 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.14.6 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.14.5 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.14.6 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |