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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2019-01-26 20:44:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2019-01-27 08:59:47 +0100 |
| commit | 72d68bbefb882dd4ab6c9bb78c46592fd8ec8b9b (patch) | |
| tree | 4703eb27c4726a84d13f49f328768a1929621a33 /README.initrd | |
| parent | 22643bf37651b7677deb9e06c35d1c1b0c43b883 (diff) | |
| download | current-72d68bbefb882dd4ab6c9bb78c46592fd8ec8b9b.tar.gz | |
Sat Jan 26 20:44:46 UTC 201920190126204446
a/kernel-generic-4.19.18-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.19.18-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-4.19.18-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
ap/zsh-5.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
d/bison-3.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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k/kernel-source-4.19.18-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/SDL2_ttf-2.0.15-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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l/libcdio-paranoia-10.2+2.0.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.
kernels/*: Upgraded.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index b26c8803..43ef88b7 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Jan 23 01:55:38 UTC 2019 +Sat Jan 26 20:19:37 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". @@ -33,16 +33,16 @@ 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 4.19.17 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 4.19.18 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-4.19.17-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.17-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-8.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-4.19.18-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.18-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-11.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 4.19.17 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.18 -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 4.19.17 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.19.18 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.17 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.18 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |