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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2020-12-26 21:51:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-12-27 08:59:50 +0100 |
| commit | 6b36bf33af7653ac741a7134f347c00ce3653b17 (patch) | |
| tree | a6990399f514a512e13344271ab4b3c7de21abde /README.initrd | |
| parent | 3febc9e648f6e4ea429b1a7e51a02c284f886ae2 (diff) | |
| download | current-6b36bf33af7653ac741a7134f347c00ce3653b17.tar.gz | |
Sat Dec 26 21:51:18 UTC 202020201226215118
a/glibc-zoneinfo-2020e-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
This package provides the latest timezone updates.
a/kernel-generic-5.10.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-5.10.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-5.10.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/sysstat-12.5.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-5.10.3-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-5.10.3-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
SND_PCSP n -> m
SND_SOC_AK5558 n -> m
SND_SOC_INTEL_CML_LP_DA7219_MAX98357A_MACH n -> m
SND_SOC_INTEL_KBL_RT5663_RT5514_MAX98927_MACH n -> m
SND_SOC_INTEL_SKL_HDA_DSP_GENERIC_MACH n -> m
SND_SOC_INTEL_SOF_RT5682_MACH n -> m
+SND_SOC_RT5514 m
+SND_SOC_RT5514_SPI m
Added a few more sound modules. Thanks to Loomx for pointing out that
SND_SOC_INTEL_SKL_HDA_DSP_GENERIC_MACH was missing.
l/imagemagick-7.0.10_53-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libusb-1.0.24-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.initrd')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.initrd | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index d1eb612f..d6b91f50 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Fri Dec 25 00:29:32 UTC 2020 +Sat Dec 26 21:39:19 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 5.10.2 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.10.3 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-5.10.2-x86_64-2.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.2-x86_64-2.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.10.3-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.3-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-16.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 5.10.2 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.3 -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 5.10.2 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.10.3 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.2 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.3 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |