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@@ -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