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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2020-01-27 00:48:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-01-27 08:59:48 +0100 |
| commit | 5b3e6348dd921536295352bf3d67679c14c39087 (patch) | |
| tree | 9befb67346877e293b5ee06c0299d469bd2918b2 /README.initrd | |
| parent | d2819b80a087624588330565e96333d8c83ae9ba (diff) | |
| download | current-5b3e6348dd921536295352bf3d67679c14c39087.tar.gz | |
Mon Jan 27 00:48:51 UTC 202020200127004851
a/aaa_elflibs-15.0-x86_64-21.txz: Rebuilt.
Upgraded: libisl.so.22.0.1.
Added: libkeyutils.so.1.9.
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a/kernel-huge-5.4.15-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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Drop back to make-4.2.1 since make-4.3 is breaking a few builds. We'll
revisit it later after sources have caught up to it or regressions have
been patched upstream.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index c0fe0be0..89801e89 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Fri Jan 24 00:24:37 UTC 2020 +Mon Jan 27 00:26:59 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 5.4.14 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.4.15 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-5.4.14-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.14-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.15-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.15-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-14.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 5.4.14 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.15 -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 5.4.14 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.15 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.14 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.15 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |