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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2020-08-24 20:48:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-08-25 17:59:56 +0200 |
| commit | 855c3ceaa9f5e68508028608316d973e2068c924 (patch) | |
| tree | 747e8f2e93aa7e29ad94d74c49cd6b360890f153 /README.initrd | |
| parent | aef1dd99c7a4d8a3da26619fcbfc4a6eb501d2e3 (diff) | |
| download | current-20200824204803.tar.gz | |
Mon Aug 24 20:48:03 UTC 202020200824204803
ap/nano-5.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/doxygen-1.8.20-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/nasm-2.15.03-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Reverted to previous nasm since the new version has problems with some of
the assembly included in Firefox.
d/parallel-20200822-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libcap-ng-0.7.11-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/libgpg-error-1.39-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/libqmi-1.26.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/mozilla-firefox-78.2.0esr-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This release contains security fixes and improvements.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/78.2.0/releasenotes/
(* Security fix *)
xap/sane-1.0.31-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 3ebff8e3..ff753bd2 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Tue Aug 11 20:02:36 UTC 2020 +Fri Aug 21 20:10:21 UTC 2020 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 5.4.58 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.4.60 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-5.4.58-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.58-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.60-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.60-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-15.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 5.4.58 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.60 -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 5.4.58 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.60 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.58 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.60 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |