diff options
| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2023-08-08 22:42:46 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2023-08-09 01:50:17 +0200 |
| commit | cba646cba8d9743163fd3f862ea894c53225c80f (patch) | |
| tree | 8fc70445970a09b4906d1c3b1309c2428bd3322c /README.initrd | |
| parent | 34b273fa615b326da9f883aea3addf0abf1d0c07 (diff) | |
| download | current-cba646cba8d9743163fd3f862ea894c53225c80f.tar.gz current-cba646cba8d9743163fd3f862ea894c53225c80f.tar.xz | |
Tue Aug 8 22:42:46 UTC 202320230808224246
a/kernel-firmware-20230808_0ab353f-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-6.1.44-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-6.1.44-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-6.1.44-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-6.1.44-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/meson-1.2.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-6.1.44-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
+ARCH_HAS_CPU_FINALIZE_INIT y
+CPU_SRSO y
+GDS_FORCE_MITIGATION n
kde/ktextaddons-1.4.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
kde/okteta-0.26.13-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
kde/sddm-0.20.0-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt.
Also use .new for the files in /etc/pam.d/. Thanks to marav.
x/ibus-m17n-1.4.21-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/windowmaker-0.96.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.initrd')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.initrd | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 64fb9c0b3..dcc1b2ce0 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Fri Aug 4 18:49:14 UTC 2023 +Tue Aug 8 22:27:53 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 6.1.43 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 6.1.44 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-6.1.43-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.43-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-6.1.44-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.44-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-32.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 6.1.43 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.44 -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 6.1.43 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 6.1.44 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.43 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.44 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |