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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2021-03-12 01:46:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2021-03-12 08:59:52 +0100 |
| commit | 913fae06e0ae428cf46ebd3dc23dbf384d42b20b (patch) | |
| tree | ea77a46af93fc6eeac344801aefc8269ce672797 /README.initrd | |
| parent | e2d188d741d8d635b1822a3a50defa64b00657da (diff) | |
| download | current-913fae06e0ae428cf46ebd3dc23dbf384d42b20b.tar.gz | |
Fri Mar 12 01:46:50 UTC 202120210312014650
x/mesa-21.0.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 27830877..c37957e5 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Mar 10 01:19:20 UTC 2021 +Thu Mar 11 23:20:46 UTC 2021 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 5.10.22 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.10.23 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-5.10.22-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.22-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.10.23-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.10.23-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-19.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 5.10.22 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.23 -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 5.10.22 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.10.23 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.22 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.10.23 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |