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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2012-09-26 01:10:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2018-05-31 22:51:55 +0200 |
| commit | 9664bee729d487bcc0a0bc35859f8e13d5421c75 (patch) | |
| tree | b428a16618e36ed864a8d76ea3435e19a452bf90 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 75a4a592e5ccda30715f93563d741b83e0dcf39e (diff) | |
| download | current-9664bee729d487bcc0a0bc35859f8e13d5421c75.tar.gz | |
Slackware 14.0slackware-14.0
Wed Sep 26 01:10:42 UTC 2012
Slackware 14.0 x86_64 stable is released!
We're perfectionists here at Slackware, so this release has been a long
time a-brewing. But we think you'll agree that it was worth the wait.
Slackware 14.0 combines modern components, ease of use, and flexible
configuration... our "KISS" philosophy demands it.
The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a
dual-sided
32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. Please consider supporting the Slackware
project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com. We're taking
pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription.
Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen. The Slackware team, the
upstream developers, and (of course) the awesome Slackware user
community.
Have fun! :-)
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index ca95c332..698f4226 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Apr 7 06:02:26 CDT 2011 +Mon Sep 17 13:39:27 CDT 2012 This document describes how to create and install an initrd, which may be -required to use the 2.6 kernel. Also see "man mkinitrd". +required to use the 3.2 kernel. Also see "man mkinitrd". 1. What is an initrd? 2. Why to I need an initrd? @@ -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 2.6.37.6 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 3.2.29 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-2.6.37.6-i686-1.tgz - installpkg kernel-modules-2.6.37.6-i686-1.tgz + installpkg kernel-generic-3.2.29-i686-1.tgz + installpkg kernel-modules-3.2.29-i686-1.tgz installpkg mkinitrd-1.1.0-i486-1.tgz Change into the /boot directory: @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Now you'll want to run "mkinitrd". I'm using reiserfs for my root filesystem, and since it's an IDE system the reiserfs module will be the only one I need to load: - mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.37.6 -m reiserfs + mkinitrd -c -k 3.2.29 -m reiserfs 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 2.6.37.6 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 3.2.29 kernel modules for a system with an ext3 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.37.6 -m ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 3.2.29 -m ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? @@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ initrd. Here's an example section of lilo.conf showing how this is done: # Linux bootable partition config begins -image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-2.6.37.6 +image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-3.2.29 initrd = /boot/initrd.gz root = /dev/sda6 - label = Lnx26376 + label = Lnx3229 read-only # Linux bootable partition config ends |