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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-04-16 23:29:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-04-17 08:59:50 +0200 |
| commit | 96ec6f0e63c74603e12941ffc8bb0c28ebe566cb (patch) | |
| tree | 50a461c35488c3b2a43a578a31f7346e518e4f23 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 32353d1a5338767d5c5bbd5c99bc0969cd901a5a (diff) | |
| download | current-96ec6f0e63c74603e12941ffc8bb0c28ebe566cb.tar.gz | |
Fri Apr 16 23:29:36 UTC 202120210416232936
a/kernel-generic-5.10.31-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.10.31-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.10.31-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-23.txz: Rebuilt.
Get rid of patch created /sbin/mkinitrd.orig. Thanks to burdi01.
d/kernel-headers-5.10.31-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.10.31-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libusb-1.0.24-x86_64-4.txz: Rebuilt.
Fix parsing of descriptors for multi-configuration devices. Thanks to acbff0.
n/network-scripts-15.0-noarch-16.txz: Rebuilt.
netconfig: fix typo. Thanks to Gerard Lally.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.11.x/kernel-generic-5.11.15-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.11.x/kernel-headers-5.11.15-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.11.x/kernel-huge-5.11.15-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.11.x/kernel-modules-5.11.15-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.11.x/kernel-source-5.11.15-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 04f075d8..7fbc622d 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Apr 14 18:42:05 UTC 2021 +Fri Apr 16 23:19:40 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 5.10.30 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.10.31 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-5.10.30-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.30-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-21.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.10.31-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.31-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-23.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 5.10.30 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.31 -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 5.10.30 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.10.31 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.30 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.31 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |