True; what I was thinking of was not GRUB or LILO, but the fact that setting the init process from a kernel command line is less useful for hacks like these if

True; what I was thinking of was not GRUB or LILO, but the fact that setting the init process from a kernel command line is less useful for hacks like these if the initial root file system is only an initramfs images from /boot, and does not contain Emacs.