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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index 20ec4054..96a2ed45 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Sun Jul 12 23:23:24 CDT 2009 +Wed May 12 22:32:34 CDT 2010 This document describes how to create and install an initrd, which may be required to use the 2.6 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 2.6.29.6 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 2.6.33.4 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-2.6.29.6-i686-2.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-2.6.29.6-i686-2.txz - installpkg mkinitrd-1.3.4-i486-3.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-2.6.33.4-x86_64-1.tgz + installpkg kernel-modules-2.6.33.4-x86_64-1.tgz + installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.5-x86_64-2.txz 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 2.6.29.6 -m reiserfs + mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.33.4 -m reiserfs This should do two things. First, it will create a directory /boot/initrd-tree containing the initrd's filesystem. Then it will @@ -61,11 +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 2.6.29.6 -kernel modules for a system with an ext3 root partition on /dev/hdb3. -Note that you need the mbcache, jbd, and ext3 modules to use ext3: +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 2.6.33.4 +kernel modules for a system with an ext3 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.29.6 -m mbcache:jbd:ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/hdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.33.4 -m ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? @@ -77,10 +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-2.6.29.6 +image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-2.6.33.4 initrd = /boot/initrd.gz - root = /dev/hda6 - label = Lnx26296 + root = /dev/sda6 + label = Lnx26334 read-only # Linux bootable partition config ends |