From d5c267841ae969914a7a7d3265d40931171c2f44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick J Volkerding Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:34:10 +0000 Subject: Thu Dec 16 21:34:10 UTC 2021 a/kernel-firmware-20211216_f682ecb-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-generic-5.15.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-huge-5.15.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-5.15.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/openssl-solibs-1.1.1m-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. ap/inxi-3.3.10_1-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. Thanks to h2-1. d/kernel-headers-5.15.9-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. d/vala-0.54.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. k/kernel-source-5.15.9-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. SUNRPC_DEBUG n -> y +NFS_DEBUG y Thanks to bassmadrigal. kde/latte-dock-0.10.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/mozilla-nss-3.73.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/pipewire-0.3.42-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/iputils-20211215-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/openssl-1.1.1m-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/php-7.4.27-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. x/xorg-server-1.20.14-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Built using --enable-systemd-logind to use elogind for device setup. Some code changes would be required in xorg-server, xinit, and various login managers to make rootless X work out of the box or to fall back in cases where elogind isn't supported, and those changes aren't appropriate here in the RC stage, but you can try it without recompiling: chmod 755 /usr/libexec/Xorg* Thanks to LuckyCyborg. x/xorg-server-xephyr-1.20.14-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. x/xorg-server-xnest-1.20.14-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. x/xorg-server-xvfb-1.20.14-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. xap/mozilla-firefox-91.4.1esr-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. This is a bugfix release. For more information, see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/91.4.1/releasenotes/ 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 3d76297d8..f6fd8c62a 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Dec 15 04:21:13 UTC 2021 +Thu Dec 16 21:05:38 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 5.15.8 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.15.9 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-5.15.8-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.15.8-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.15.9-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.15.9-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-26.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 5.15.8 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.9 -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 5.15.8 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.15.9 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.8 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.15.9 -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