On 2023-06-08 15:41 +0100, James Addison wrote: > Does anyone have experience running Debian systems without using an initramfs?
I did this in the distance past, some 15 years ago or so. Have long abandoned that idea, though. > I'd be particularly keen to hear about laptop/desktop/server systems, > because I think that a large motivating factor to use initramfs -- > across many distributions -- was to provide a mechanism > outside-the-compiled-kernel to load additional device driver modules, > and I'd like to check that that motivation is still valid. s/device driver// Loading modules via an intramfs is crucial for a distro kernel, because the only alternative would be to compile in support for dozens of filesystems that users might want to use as their root filesystem. Cheers, Sven