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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2019-07-22 03:05:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2019-07-22 08:59:46 +0200 |
| commit | 9f4ecf6a5f87f2f8eb2401c45d1dff7ca806bba5 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b600cf3316a8824740c8b9c7532c0f99b83a8ea /README.initrd | |
| parent | 445d52ff429e65a921df7dd9b85e8e2153558fb6 (diff) | |
| download | current-9f4ecf6a5f87f2f8eb2401c45d1dff7ca806bba5.tar.gz | |
Mon Jul 22 03:05:48 UTC 201920190722030548
l/SDL2_mixer-2.0.4-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled with --enable-music-mp3-mad-gpl. Thanks to pomf.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 4ae24c44..573b0921 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Sun Jul 14 22:37:57 UTC 2019 +Sun Jul 21 19:43:08 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 4.19.59 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 4.19.60 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-4.19.59-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.59-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-4.19.60-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.60-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-12.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 4.19.59 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.60 -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 4.19.59 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.19.60 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.59 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.60 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |