From cc59e5e82c942adec962972f51c9818f1d1cc185 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick J Volkerding Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 22:42:55 +0000 Subject: Fri Aug 10 22:42:55 UTC 2018 a/kernel-generic-4.14.62-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-huge-4.14.62-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-4.14.62-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. ap/pamixer-1.3.1-x86_64-7.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled against boost-1.68.0. d/cmake-3.12.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/distcc-3.3-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt. Install masquerade symlinks in /usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/distcc/. d/kernel-headers-4.14.62-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. k/kernel-source-4.14.62-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. kde/calligra-2.9.11-x86_64-24.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled against boost-1.68.0. l/akonadi-1.13.0-x86_64-10.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled against boost-1.68.0. l/boost-1.68.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Shared library .so-version bump. l/harfbuzz-1.8.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/libgsf-1.14.44-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/librsvg-2.42.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/libsoup-2.62.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/bind-9.12.2_P1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Fixed a security issue where named could crash during recursive processing of DNAME records when "deny-answer-aliases" was in use resulting in a denial of service. Note that "deny-answer-aliases" is rarely used. For more information, see: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-5740 (* Security fix *) xap/audacious-3.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. xap/audacious-plugins-3.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. extra/pure-alsa-system/audacious-plugins-3.10-x86_64-1_alsa.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 b95f8512f..ad8fbd5bb 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Tue Aug 7 05:24:25 UTC 2018 +Thu Aug 9 21:52:03 UTC 2018 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 4.14.61 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 4.14.62 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-4.14.61-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-4.14.61-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-4.14.62-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-4.14.62-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-8.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 4.14.61 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.14.62 -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 4.14.61 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.14.62 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 4.14.61 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.14.62 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? -- cgit v1.2.3