On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 05:11:01AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> Well, maybe because initramfs is a PITA many people choose to avoid.
> When things go wrong, it's the ultimate black box. And I'm very scared
> that one day Poettering/Redhat/Freedesktop.org will corner the market
> on initramfs makers, will make them systemd only, sans-systemd distros
> who have completed the merge will have the choice of backing out the
> merge or going to systemd.

(1) Is initramfs so weird that only one or two people in the world can
make one?

(2) What is initramfs good for? Linux used to work just fine without
it.

-- hendrik