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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-03-10 01:30:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-03-10 08:59:55 +0100 |
| commit | 2d203525984b46a39691e1035d350b9b1625ca1e (patch) | |
| tree | 512ad7427f2bd1371567da0da4aba17f9de4ea5e /README.initrd | |
| parent | 0be77b20dad3002d7968cc0a5a8c611d8f9c6315 (diff) | |
| download | current-2d203525984b46a39691e1035d350b9b1625ca1e.tar.gz | |
Wed Mar 10 01:30:34 UTC 202120210310013034
a/kernel-generic-5.10.22-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.10.22-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.10.22-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/sysklogd-2.2.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/bison-3.7.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.10.22-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/mercurial-5.7.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.10.22-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/netpbm-10.93.01-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/samba-4.13.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/mozilla-thunderbird-78.8.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This is a bugfix release.
For more information, see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/78.8.1/releasenotes/
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.11.x/kernel-generic-5.11.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.11.x/kernel-headers-5.11.5-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.11.x/kernel-huge-5.11.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.11.x/kernel-modules-5.11.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
testing/packages/linux-5.11.x/kernel-source-5.11.5-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 5122a80f..27830877 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Sun Mar 7 20:22:02 UTC 2021 +Wed Mar 10 01:19:20 UTC 2021 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 5.10.21 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.10.22 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-5.10.21-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.21-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.10.22-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.22-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-19.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 5.10.21 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.22 -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 5.10.21 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.10.22 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.21 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.22 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |