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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2024-01-20 21:04:49 +0000 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2024-01-20 22:50:42 +0100 |
| commit | f7ae570bcc5730ab54050c0495b0dfeb1fb9b2c1 (patch) | |
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| parent | 833db20af85c29d8e60f39c871fd0ef43cd7cccb (diff) | |
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 17f9d5137..8ca31856a 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Mon Jan 15 20:26:54 UTC 2024 +Sat Jan 20 20:14:16 UTC 2024 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 6.6.12 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 6.6.13 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-6.6.12-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-6.6.12-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-6.6.13-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-6.6.13-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 6.6.12 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.6.13 -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 6.6.12 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 6.6.13 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 6.6.12 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.6.13 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |