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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2019-11-10 21:12:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2019-11-11 08:59:40 +0100 |
| commit | ccd1c3535c8dddf0cc8df21b4d3bdf6dac2b39bd (patch) | |
| tree | f816ce7398a5fbcf3ea105994696f53bbb5c1e78 /README.initrd | |
| parent | cdea680437e2afe627210ed696c16969e268ad84 (diff) | |
| download | current-ccd1c3535c8dddf0cc8df21b4d3bdf6dac2b39bd.tar.gz | |
Sun Nov 10 21:12:16 UTC 201920191110211216
a/aaa_elflibs-15.0-x86_64-15.txz: Rebuilt.
Upgraded: libtiff.so.5.5.0, libtiffxx.so.5.5.0.
Added: libexiv2.so.26.0.0, libraw.so.16.0.0, libraw_r.so.16.0.0.
a/kernel-generic-4.19.83-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.19.83-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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Shared library .so-version bump.
l/qt-4.8.7-x86_64-15.txz: Rebuilt.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 9bcb9a8f..f4da54b1 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Nov 6 20:48:54 UTC 2019 +Sun Nov 10 20:44:07 UTC 2019 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 4.19.82 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 4.19.83 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-4.19.82-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.82-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-4.19.83-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.83-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-13.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 4.19.82 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.83 -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 4.19.82 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.19.83 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.82 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.83 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |