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diff --git a/source/a/mkinitrd/README.initrd b/source/a/mkinitrd/README.initrd index ca95c332..c10bb630 100644 --- a/source/a/mkinitrd/README.initrd +++ b/source/a/mkinitrd/README.initrd @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Thu Apr 7 06:02:26 CDT 2011 +@DATE@ This document describes how to create and install an initrd, which may be -required to use the 2.6 kernel. Also see "man mkinitrd". +required to use some features of the kernel. Also see "man mkinitrd". 1. What is an initrd? 2. Why to I need an initrd? @@ -33,26 +33,26 @@ 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 2.6.37.6 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic @KERNEL_VERSION@ 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-2.6.37.6-i686-1.tgz - installpkg kernel-modules-2.6.37.6-i686-1.tgz - installpkg mkinitrd-1.1.0-i486-1.tgz + installpkg kernel-generic-@KERNEL_VERSION@-@ARCH@-@BUILD@.tgz + installpkg kernel-modules-@KERNEL_VERSION@-@ARCH@-@BUILD@.tgz + installpkg mkinitrd-@MKINITRD_VERSION@-@ARCH@-@BUILD@.tgz Change into the /boot directory: cd /boot -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: +Now you'll want to run "mkinitrd". I'm using ext4 for my root +filesystem, and since mkinitrd should figure out any other modules +it requires, I shouldn't need to specify any others: - mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.37.6 -m reiserfs + mkinitrd -c -k @KERNEL_VERSION@ -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 2.6.37.6 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux @KERNEL_VERSION@ kernel modules for a system with an ext3 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.37.6 -m ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k @KERNEL_VERSION@ -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-2.6.37.6 +image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-@KERNEL_VERSION@ initrd = /boot/initrd.gz root = /dev/sda6 - label = Lnx26376 + label = @LILO_KERNEL_NAME@ read-only # Linux bootable partition config ends |