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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2023-10-16 17:03:35 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2023-10-16 20:02:04 +0200 |
| commit | e3fcfb90760bd2af1d574816766377a9c511df87 (patch) | |
| tree | 7b43b0e0e702ffbf1788589dbb2d9023b1afadfd /README.initrd | |
| parent | 11a869c5a53741dfa89121ba6e03e97bd06c1180 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 555fe05d6..61c519787 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Oct 11 04:24:27 UTC 2023 +Mon Oct 16 16:48:09 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 6.1.57 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 6.1.58 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-6.1.57-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.57-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-6.1.58-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.58-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 6.1.57 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.58 -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 6.1.57 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 6.1.58 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.57 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.58 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |