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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2019-12-13 23:17:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2019-12-14 08:59:51 +0100 |
| commit | 7a0a3431974e2df951954597fdf7b0b8f4e13b5f (patch) | |
| tree | decf1816acd36f5ec85ab5bbd9be9d3817682673 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 7c3a378a752b9139754ea89ab8e730baf6b271ad (diff) | |
| download | current-7a0a3431974e2df951954597fdf7b0b8f4e13b5f.tar.gz | |
Fri Dec 13 23:17:13 UTC 201920191213231713
x/libXpm-3.5.13-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
xap/xlockmore-5.61-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 79dcb4da..0163fe3a 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Dec 5 03:54:25 UTC 2019 +Fri Dec 13 18:46:06 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 5.4.2 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.4.3 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-5.4.2-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.2-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.3-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.3-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-13.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 5.4.2 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.3 -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 5.4.2 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.3 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.2 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.3 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |