Following this guide will get you something very close to a base Alpine Linuxwith busybox. Alpine is fairly minimal out of the box and even eschews grub for sy

Following this guide will get you something very close to a base Alpine Linuxwith busybox. Alpine is fairly minimal out of the box and even eschews grub for syslinux. The upside with Alpine is if you need features and packages they are an install away. But if the purpose is to learn about compiling the kernel and how the system initalizes this is a decent start.