On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 12:26:41PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > If / is formatted ext4, it can be mounted directly by a kernel with ext4 > drivers, no initramfs needed.
Wasn't the original reason for having an initrd that the boot loader, probably LILO at the time, couldn't handle a kernel image above a certain size? (My recollection could be faulty here, so corrections welcome). I still use a separate /boot partition, formatted ext3, with grub-legacy (which couldn't work with ext4 last time I checked). Grub2 is bloated enough to make me uncomfortable so I won't use it unless I have to. John _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
