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authorPatrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>2011-04-25 13:37:00 +0000
committerEric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2018-05-31 22:45:18 +0200
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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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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Slackware initrd mini HOWTO
by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com
-Wed May 12 22:32:34 CDT 2010
+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".
@@ -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 2.6.33.4 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-2.6.33.4-x86_64-1.tgz
- installpkg kernel-modules-2.6.33.4-x86_64-1.tgz
- installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.5-x86_64-2.txz
+ 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 2.6.33.4 -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 2.6.33.4
+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 2.6.33.4 -m ext3 -f ext3 -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-2.6.33.4
+image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-2.6.37.6
initrd = /boot/initrd.gz
root = /dev/sda6
- label = Lnx26334
+ label = Lnx26376
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends