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| author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2011-04-25 13:37:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2018-05-31 22:45:18 +0200 |
| commit | 75a4a592e5ccda30715f93563d741b83e0dcf39e (patch) | |
| tree | 502f745607e77a2c4386ad38d818ddcafe81489c /source/a/mkinitrd/README.initrd | |
| parent | b76270bf9e6dd375e495fec92140a79a79415d27 (diff) | |
| download | current-75a4a592e5ccda30715f93563d741b83e0dcf39e.tar.gz | |
Slackware 13.37slackware-13.37
Mon Apr 25 13:37:00 UTC 2011
Slackware 13.37 x86_64 stable is released!
Thanks to everyone who pitched in on this release: the Slackware team,
the folks producing upstream code, and linuxquestions.org for providing
a great forum for collaboration and testing.
The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a
dual-sided
32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. Please consider supporting the Slackware
project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com. We're taking
pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription.
As always, thanks to the Slackware community for testing, suggestions,
and feedback. :-)
Have fun!
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/source/a/mkinitrd/README.initrd b/source/a/mkinitrd/README.initrd index 86d77539..ca95c332 100644 --- a/source/a/mkinitrd/README.initrd +++ b/source/a/mkinitrd/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Wed Jun 17 01:49:18 CDT 2009 +Thu Apr 7 06:02:26 CDT 2011 This document describes how to create and install an initrd, which may be required to use the 2.6 kernel. Also see "man mkinitrd". @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ and before the main root filesystem is mounted. The usual reason to use an initrd is because you need to load kernel modules before mounting the root partition. Usually these modules are -required to support the filesystem used by the root partition (ext3, ext4, +required to support the filesystem used by the root partition (ext3, reiserfs, xfs), or perhaps the controller that the hard drive is attached to (SCSI, RAID, etc). Essentially, there are so many different options available in modern Linux kernels that it isn't practical to try to ship @@ -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 2.6.29.5 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 2.6.37.6 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-2.6.29.5-i686-1.tgz - installpkg kernel-modules-2.6.29.5-i686-1.tgz + installpkg kernel-generic-2.6.37.6-i686-1.tgz + installpkg kernel-modules-2.6.37.6-i686-1.tgz installpkg mkinitrd-1.1.0-i486-1.tgz Change into the /boot directory: @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Now you'll want to run "mkinitrd". I'm using reiserfs for my root filesystem, and since it's an IDE system the reiserfs module will be the only one I need to load: - mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.32.3 -m reiserfs + mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.37.6 -m reiserfs 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 2.6.32.3 -kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 2.6.37.6 +kernel modules for a system with an ext3 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.32.3 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.37.6 -m ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? @@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ initrd. Here's an example section of lilo.conf showing how this is done: # Linux bootable partition config begins -image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-2.6.32.3 +image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-2.6.37.6 initrd = /boot/initrd.gz - root = /dev/sdb3 - label = Lnx26323 + root = /dev/sda6 + label = Lnx26376 read-only # Linux bootable partition config ends |