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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2020-11-05 20:40:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-11-06 08:59:56 +0100 |
| commit | 1e2b70eb9ad995e99d86e49d96104c090a860709 (patch) | |
| tree | 43b2a4ea10aae8981d937147f76f3a9a30b8eb60 /README.initrd | |
| parent | cf640c7b345c4048ff73f7169dfff4f7fa62290d (diff) | |
| download | current-1e2b70eb9ad995e99d86e49d96104c090a860709.tar.gz | |
Thu Nov 5 20:40:51 UTC 202020201105204051
a/hwdata-0.341-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-generic-5.4.75-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.4.75-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.4.75-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.4.75-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.4.75-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/oniguruma-6.9.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/openal-soft-1.21.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
n/ca-certificates-20201105-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
This update provides the latest CA certificates to check for the
authenticity of SSL connections.
x/libwacom-1.6-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
x/xkbcomp-1.4.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
testing/packages/vtown/kde/sddm-0.18.1-x86_64-1_vtown_3.txz: Rebuilt.
Fixed man page installation directory. Thanks to chrisretusn.
Xsetup: include comments.
Create /var/lib/sddm at build time.
Generate /etc/sddm.conf at build time.
Do not mess with users/groups in doinst.sh. These are expected to exist.
Do not add MinimumVT=7 to sddm.conf, as it is already included by default.
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 a6b928cb..180f2e85 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Sun Nov 1 19:05:20 UTC 2020 +Thu Nov 5 20:27:41 UTC 2020 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 5.4.74 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.4.75 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-5.4.74-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.74-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.75-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.75-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-15.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 5.4.74 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.75 -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 5.4.74 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.75 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.74 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.75 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |