From b04af892853e58c426e27bff4f0acbcd3d524f06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick J Volkerding Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 22:18:13 +0000 Subject: Mon Dec 11 22:18:13 UTC 2023 We've gone ahead and moved the 6.6 kernel into the main tree. As previously mentioned when this branch first appeared in /testing, on the 32-bit side there are no longer any -smp labeled kernel packages, so if you were using those previously, you'll need to switch to using to kernel-generic or kernel-huge kernel, including the changes needed to your bootloader setup to load this instead of the -smp labeled kernel. Also, if you happen to be using a first generation Pentium M chip, you will need to append forcepae to your kernel command-line options. Enjoy! :-) a/kernel-firmware-20231211_f2e52a1-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-generic-6.6.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-huge-6.6.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-6.6.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. ap/qpdf-11.6.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/kernel-headers-6.6.6-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. k/kernel-source-6.6.6-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. l/imagemagick-7.1.1_23-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/libsecret-0.21.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Thanks to reddog83 and saxa. l/zxing-cpp-2.2.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/postfix-3.8.3-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt. OpenSSL upstream says that major versions are ABI/API compatible, so stop warning in the logs that they might not be. Thanks to gildbg and Markus Wiesner. 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 1cfa288ac..f79537929 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Fri Dec 8 21:44:31 UTC 2023 +Mon Dec 11 20:13:31 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 6.1.66 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 6.6.6 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-6.1.66-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-6.1.66-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-6.6.6-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-6.6.6-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 6.1.66 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.6.6 -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 6.1.66 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 6.6.6 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 6.1.66 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 6.6.6 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? -- cgit v1.2.3