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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2019-12-21 21:02:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2019-12-22 08:59:50 +0100 |
| commit | 34c69a90eabb6e22de0b9bba1c7031c976ae3d4d (patch) | |
| tree | 8726deae26229f33906077fef5a05de029dc18e2 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 07f87f994f59b3e53d1385c2a078db7a9952492d (diff) | |
| download | current-34c69a90eabb6e22de0b9bba1c7031c976ae3d4d.tar.gz | |
Sat Dec 21 21:02:24 UTC 201920191221210224
a/kernel-generic-5.4.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.4.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.4.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/procps-ng-3.3.16-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Patched to hardcode the pgrep command string buffer size to 4096 as was done
in the previous release. This avoids an allocation error when the stack size
is unlimited. Thanks to Jeroslaw Siebert.
a/xfsprogs-5.4.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.4.6-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.4.6-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/QScintilla-2.11.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/dhcpcd-8.1.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/lftp-4.9.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/hexchat-2.14.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 9360c8ad..7e9814ab 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Dec 18 20:04:42 UTC 2019 +Sat Dec 21 20:40:18 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 5.4.5 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.4.6 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-5.4.5-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.5-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.6-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.6-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 5.4.5 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.6 -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 5.4.5 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.6 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.5 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.6 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |