From 5f99be2c8219a867c3c77ba3674e9a715fefb618 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick J Volkerding Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 01:29:12 +0000 Subject: Wed May 31 01:29:12 UTC 2023 a/kernel-firmware-20230530_1f9667e-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-generic-6.1.31-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-huge-6.1.31-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-6.1.31-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/openssl-solibs-3.1.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/kernel-headers-6.1.31-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. k/kernel-source-6.1.31-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. l/imagemagick-7.1.1_11-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/curl-8.1.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. This is a bugfix release. n/openssl-3.1.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: Possible DoS translating ASN.1 object identifiers. For more information, see: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230530.txt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-2650 (* Security fix *) xfce/xfce4-power-manager-4.18.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. xfce/xfce4-screensaver-4.18.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt. kernels/*: 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 73c02b4f9..0de16076c 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu May 25 00:09:28 UTC 2023 +Wed May 31 01:17:42 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 6.1.30 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 6.1.31 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-6.1.30-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.30-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-6.1.31-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.31-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 6.1.30 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.31 -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 6.1.30 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 6.1.31 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.30 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.31 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? -- cgit v1.2.3-79-gdb01