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authorPatrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>2018-11-04 19:45:38 +0000
committerEric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2018-11-05 08:59:43 +0100
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Sun Nov 4 19:45:38 UTC 201820181104194538
a/btrfs-progs-v4.19-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/haveged-1.9.4-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt. rc.haveged: eliminate startup noise. a/kernel-generic-4.19.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-huge-4.19.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-4.19.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/cmake-3.12.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/kernel-headers-4.19.1-x86-1.txz: Upgraded. k/kernel-source-4.19.1-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded. Temporarily build in speakup drivers until the modular ones are fixed. Thanks to Didier Spaier. SPEAKUP m -> y SPEAKUP_SYNTH_ACNTPC m -> y SPEAKUP_SYNTH_ACNTSA m -> y SPEAKUP_SYNTH_APOLLO m -> y SPEAKUP_SYNTH_AUDPTR m -> y SPEAKUP_SYNTH_BNS m -> y SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DECEXT m -> y SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DECTLK m -> y SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DTLK m -> y SPEAKUP_SYNTH_DUMMY m -> y SPEAKUP_SYNTH_KEYPC m -> y SPEAKUP_SYNTH_LTLK m -> y SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SOFT m -> y SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SPKOUT m -> y SPEAKUP_SYNTH_TXPRT m -> y l/alsa-lib-1.1.7-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt. Fixed PCM interval. Thanks to aaditya. l/xapian-core-1.4.9-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt. kernels/*: Upgraded. usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Slackware initrd mini HOWTO
by Patrick Volkerding, volkerdi@slackware.com
-Tue Oct 23 04:14:40 UTC 2018
+Sun Nov 4 19:17:58 UTC 2018
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 4.19.0 Linux kernel using the packages
+upgrading to the generic 4.19.1 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-4.19.0-x86_64-1.txz
- installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.0-x86_64-1.txz
+ installpkg kernel-generic-4.19.1-x86_64-1.txz
+ installpkg kernel-modules-4.19.1-x86_64-1.txz
installpkg mkinitrd-1.4.11-x86_64-8.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 4.19.0 -m ext4
+ mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.1 -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 4.19.0
+Here's another example: Build an initrd image using Linux 4.19.1
kernel modules for a system with an ext4 root partition on /dev/sdb3:
- mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.0 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3
+ mkinitrd -c -k 4.19.1 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3
4. Now that I've built an initrd, how do I use it?