On 2023-06-08, James Addison wrote: > Does anyone have experience running Debian systems without using an initramfs? > > 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.
I once compiled custom kernels for servers, including all (and only) necessary drivers, and deactivating initramfs. I succesfully redo this recently. It gave a smaller and quicker boot. But now I get back to initramfs for encrypted partitions. There is also the microcode early loading.