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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2018-11-28 07:25:32 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2018-11-28 17:59:44 +0100 |
commit | 388986876373b8d6d9053c36196978464bd3362e (patch) | |
tree | 2447049c22eb45bd771fa0132638b508ecff9992 /README.initrd | |
parent | bec25255185f3eb2e43abf4a495c275fe3c70fbf (diff) | |
download | current-388986876373b8d6d9053c36196978464bd3362e.tar.gz |
Wed Nov 28 07:25:32 UTC 201820181128072532
a/elilo-3.16-x86_64-9.txz: Rebuilt.
eliloconfig: don't assume that mount output lists the / partition first.
a/f2fs-tools-1.12.0-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
a/kernel-generic-4.19.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.19.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
CRYPTO_CRC32 m -> y
F2FS_FS m -> y
a/kernel-modules-4.19.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/sysvinit-scripts-2.1-noarch-22.txz: Rebuilt.
rc.S: if we're using F2FS for the root filesystem, don't try to check it as
fsck.f2fs throws an error on trying to check a read-only filesystem.
d/clisp-2.49_20181112_df3b9f6fd-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-4.19.5-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-4.19.5-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/graphite2-1.3.12-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
Required by harfbuzz in order to use it as a system library for TeXlive.
l/harfbuzz-2.1.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Requires graphite2-1.3.12.
t/texlive-2018.180822-x86_64-4.txz: Rebuilt.
Use system harfbuzz, not the bundled version.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
Activate LVM volumes at boot, not only when setup is run.
Make /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts on the installer.
On a freshly installed system, make /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts.
Include f2fs-tools on the installer.
Support installing on F2FS partitions.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 237dd4a5..bb0f75b8 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Fri Nov 23 22:11:18 UTC 2018 +Wed Nov 28 01:30:16 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 4.19.4 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 4.19.5 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-4.19.4-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.4-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-4.19.5-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.5-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 4.19.4 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.5 -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 4.19.4 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.19.5 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.4 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.5 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |