From 08abb060ab1ce8e9b334eb540481976590d56cd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick J Volkerding Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 21:05:00 +0000 Subject: Wed May 19 21:05:00 UTC 2021 a/kernel-firmware-20210518_f846292-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-generic-5.10.38-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-huge-5.10.38-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-5.10.38-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/kernel-headers-5.10.38-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. k/kernel-source-5.10.38-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. l/imagemagick-7.0.11_13-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/pango-1.48.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/pipewire-0.3.28-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Config files are now installed in the data dir, system overrides in /etc/pipewire and $HOME are checked first. x/libX11-1.7.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes missing request length checks in libX11 that can lead to the emission of extra X protocol requests to the X server. For more information, see: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2021-May/003088.html https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-31535 (* Security fix *) x/libdrm-2.4.106-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. xfce/xfce4-screenshooter-1.9.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt. kernels/*: Upgraded. testing/packages/linux-5.12.x/kernel-generic-5.12.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. testing/packages/linux-5.12.x/kernel-headers-5.12.5-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. testing/packages/linux-5.12.x/kernel-huge-5.12.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. testing/packages/linux-5.12.x/kernel-modules-5.12.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. testing/packages/linux-5.12.x/kernel-source-5.12.5-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt. --- README.initrd | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.initrd') diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index c3c6c1022..5b0678ddf 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Fri May 14 19:50:00 UTC 2021 +Wed May 19 20:17:28 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 5.10.37 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.10.38 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-5.10.37-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.37-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.10.38-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.38-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-24.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 5.10.37 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.38 -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 5.10.37 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.10.38 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.37 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.38 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? -- cgit v1.2.3