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@@ -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