Re: Running Debian without initramfs?
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.
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