On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:47:27AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> I'm under the impression you can do most or all of what needs to be
> done in the actual init, rather than the initramfs. This gets a little
> complicated now that Linux has been "improved" by having /sbin
> and /bin be symlinks to /usr/bin, which might not be mounted in early
> boot, but aside from that, I think once you have possession of /bin
> and /sbin, then assuming that /etc is not a mountpoint, I think most
> other stuff can be delayed til the real init, always assuming that it's
> easier to put stuff in the on-disk init than in initramfs.

Is that Linux that has been "improved" by turning /sbin and /bin into
symlinks? Or is it Debian? Or the systemd collection of distros?

-- hendrik