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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2023-11-08 22:04:25 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2023-11-08 23:36:11 +0100 |
| commit | d387e58ecc1078f05ee9e618aef86b008b52ed89 (patch) | |
| tree | 78360deed7291fc2e51e379795a2b9d0d95d27d9 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 69753b9a1da83d78dab7943e3fcdb428ee74a254 (diff) | |
| download | current-d387e58ecc1078f05ee9e618aef86b008b52ed89.tar.gz current-d387e58ecc1078f05ee9e618aef86b008b52ed89.tar.xz | |
Wed Nov 8 22:04:25 UTC 202320231108220425
a/kbd-2.6.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Thanks to Robby Workman.
a/kernel-firmware-20231107_2340796-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-6.1.62-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-6.1.62-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-6.1.62-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/sudo-1.9.15p1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This is a bugfix release:
Fixed a bug introduced in sudo 1.9.15 that prevented LDAP-based sudoers
from being able to read the ldap.conf file.
d/kernel-headers-6.1.62-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-6.1.62-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
kde/plasma-wayland-protocols-1.11.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/liburing-2.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/mozilla-thunderbird-115.4.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This is a bugfix release.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/115.4.2/releasenotes/
xap/xlockmore-5.74-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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 849e8c33d..cd6714c66 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Nov 2 20:19:42 UTC 2023 +Wed Nov 8 21:27:51 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 6.1.61 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 6.1.62 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-6.1.61-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.61-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-6.1.62-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.62-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-33.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 6.1.61 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.62 -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 6.1.61 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 6.1.62 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.61 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.62 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |