Hendrik Boom said on Sun, 3 Dec 2023 16:58:23 -0500

>It's not clear to me why initrd is an improvement over having the
>start scrits in /boot.

Unless the kernel has all drivers to mount your root partition (and
maybe /boot too), compiled in, not as loadable libraries, an initrd
(initramfs in modern terms) containing these drivers is necessary to
mount the root partition and then run PID1 and its process manager.

SteveT

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