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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2020-09-03 19:53:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-09-04 08:59:55 +0200 |
| commit | 63194a52e849df03105a4280a91e73a0d832b3da (patch) | |
| tree | 3b0a6024ede2f7739875e1cb6cd3ff547643014c /README.initrd | |
| parent | 80acc531cddf96d12904fb1860d11663bf971ff3 (diff) | |
| download | current-63194a52e849df03105a4280a91e73a0d832b3da.tar.gz | |
Thu Sep 3 19:53:13 UTC 202020200903195313
a/hwdata-0.339-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-5.4.62-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.4.62-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.4.62-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/htop-3.0.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.4.62-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/python-setuptools-50.1.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.4.62-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/gnupg2-2.2.23-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/mesa-20.1.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index d97c9b77..23811726 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Aug 26 20:58:49 UTC 2020 +Thu Sep 3 19:42:49 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 5.4.61 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.4.62 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-5.4.61-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.61-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.62-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.62-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 5.4.61 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.62 -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 5.4.61 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.62 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.61 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.62 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |