From d6b3fac831bf7bbe61e3e04c1dc6f734f06f8731 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick J Volkerding Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 19:55:29 +0000 Subject: Sat Jan 23 19:55:29 UTC 2021 a/kernel-generic-5.10.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-huge-5.10.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-5.10.10-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/os-prober-1.78-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. ap/inxi-20210113_1e2d470c-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. ap/mc-4.8.26-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. ap/sqlite-3.34.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. ap/vim-8.2.2394-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/kernel-headers-5.10.10-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. d/parallel-20210122-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. k/kernel-source-5.10.10-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. l/gtk+2-2.24.33-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/mozilla-nss-3.61-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/pango-1.48.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/pipewire-0.3.20-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. l/vte-0.62.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/bind-9.16.11-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/libgcrypt-1.9.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Use blinding for ECDSA signing to mitigate a novel side-channel attack. Add mitigation against ECC timing attack. For more information, see: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-0495 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-13626 (* Security fix *) n/libmbim-1.24.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/mutt-2.0.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/pinentry-1.1.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/s-nail-14.9.21-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. xap/vim-gvim-8.2.2394-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. xap/xsnow-3.2.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt. kernels/*: Upgraded. usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt. --- README.initrd | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.initrd') diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index a5fbc0b6f..1f8b9dcb2 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Jan 20 02:57:44 UTC 2021 +Sat Jan 23 19:38:54 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". @@ -33,16 +33,16 @@ 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 5.10.9 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.10.10 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-5.10.9-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.9-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-17.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.10.10-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.10-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-18.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 5.10.9 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.10 -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 5.10.9 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.10.10 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.9 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.10 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? -- cgit v1.2.3