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Before distributions switched to initramfs, you had to have at least one filesystem compiled in, for bootstrap reasons, so that the kernel could mount the initr
by ithkuil 14y ago
Before distributions switched to initramfs, you had to have at least one filesystem compiled in, for bootstrap reasons, so that the kernel could mount the initrd.
I don't remember exactly when did initramfs get introduced, but I remember it was a relatively long time before major distros switched to it. TFA is old enough so that might have been the case back then.
- nailer 14y ago10 years ago we still had mkinitrd in RH (source: I'm a programmer now, but in 2003 I was worked for Red Hat as an instructor for these topics). Initial RAM disks still had kernel modules in their gzipped filesystem and were rebuild able without rebuilding the kernel.