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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-02-18 20:47:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-02-19 08:59:50 +0100 |
| commit | ee1a7d961cd6886f9beadcf29069ecdf36113168 (patch) | |
| tree | b0c35a85650c6710c32131849ba2f130628aea69 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 8b03d869e114578be209fde7fe72498970f6998e (diff) | |
| download | current-ee1a7d961cd6886f9beadcf29069ecdf36113168.tar.gz | |
Thu Feb 18 20:47:35 UTC 202120210218204735
xap/mozilla-firefox-78.7.1esr-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
It looks like rebuilding Firefox with Rust 1.50.0 causes it to crash on
HTML5 streams, so let's drop back to this build. 78.8.0 is coming soon
and hopefully it'll fix this.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index f8ad2d45..ec137283 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Mon Feb 15 17:40:08 UTC 2021 +Thu Feb 18 19:11:49 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 5.10.16 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.10.17 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-5.10.16-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.16-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.10.17-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.17-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 5.10.16 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.17 -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 5.10.16 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.10.17 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.16 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.17 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |