On 12/26/18 1:57 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > On 12/26/18 11:25 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> �You should have /etc/lilo.conf, and the upgrade also included the kernel >> so you need to build a new initial ram disk (mkinitrd); instructions in >> /boot/README.initrd. > > Those instructions assume you know where the upgrade put the new kernel, > and that you know the version. I know neither. >
Dick After a full install and setup you "should" have a /etc/lilo.conf for the originally installed kernel *UNLESS* your desktop is newer and thus uses *UEFI* in which case you are using elilo which has its configuration under /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/ After slackpkg update and upgrall-all, you now have a new kernel and the system needs to be told who/what/where. lilo vs elilo instructions are very different. Since you do not have a lilo.conf, you must have installed via elilo. To upgrade the kernel on a default installation, i.e., no initrd, simply copy the new kernel (not symlink) to /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/ The default is the huge kernel; some of us prefer the generic kernel. The generic kernel only loads modules for found hardware; huge loads everything. to create and initrd (reguired to use generic kernel *ONLY*), as root cd /boot mkinitrd -c -k 4.4.157 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sda2 cp initrd.gz /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/ cp vmlinuz-generic-4.4.157 /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/vmlinuz-generic (this assumes that your /dev/sda2 root partition in etx4 file system; adjust as needed). or just cp /boot/vmlinuz-huge-4.4.157 /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/vmlinuz (/boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/vmlinuz must be the same file name as in /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/elilo.conf I will email you a pdf of what mine looks like so you have the locations etc. Note that I have 2 boot entries: generic by default and huge as a safety. ignore *.cpio as that is an Intel firmware update specific to my CPU. -Ed
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