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author | Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2020-01-24 00:51:23 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-01-24 08:59:45 +0100 |
commit | 0b8ac7e37d08edef43dbf5496d7f2bcfa17e2280 (patch) | |
tree | d4337c03adca55ae58927add6e6969f9bae12c05 /README.initrd | |
parent | 4f9273afa49a94b04bccc088fb87fec9d80a3fc6 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/README.initrd b/README.initrd index af7ea19a..c0fe0be0 100644 --- a/README.initrd +++ b/README.initrd @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Slackware initrd mini HOWTO by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com -Sat Jan 18 04:47:28 UTC 2020 +Fri Jan 24 00:24:37 UTC 2020 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 5.4.13 Linux kernel using the packages +upgrading to the generic 5.4.14 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-5.4.13-x86_64-1.txz - installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.13-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-generic-5.4.14-x86_64-1.txz + installpkg kernel-modules-5.4.14-x86_64-1.txz installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-14.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 5.4.13 -m ext4 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.14 -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 5.4.13 +Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 5.4.14 kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3: - mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.13 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 + mkinitrd -c -k 5.4.14 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3 4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it? |