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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2019-08-29 22:21:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2019-08-30 08:59:47 +0200 |
| commit | 0b228c957620e1f1cd1b9ef86f2b1f0b9c104b6f (patch) | |
| tree | 49277fb29c38adeeed8fbc38d3f172f9c8c67861 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 4dce2a46ca603e244644b58f7e18cf6af37589c3 (diff) | |
| download | current-0b228c957620e1f1cd1b9ef86f2b1f0b9c104b6f.tar.gz | |
Thu Aug 29 22:21:17 UTC 201920190829222117
a/kernel-firmware-20190827_7307a29-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-4.19.69-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.19.69-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-4.19.69-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/vim-8.1.1936-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-4.19.69-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
e/emacs-26.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-4.19.69-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/libgcrypt-1.8.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
Add mitigation against an ECDSA timing attack.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-13627
(* Security fix *)
xap/vim-gvim-8.1.1936-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
testing/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-68.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This is a bugfix release.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/68.0/releasenotes/
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.initrd')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 4ff661d6..4f7ac5e9 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Mon Aug 26 01:15:58 UTC 2019 +Thu Aug 29 21:50:26 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 4.19.68 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 4.19.69 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-4.19.68-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.68-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-4.19.69-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.69-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 4.19.68 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.69 -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 4.19.68 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.19.69 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.68 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.69 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |