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ktpsnsyesterday at 9:29 PM1 replyview on HN

When I used Gentoo, where you typically configure&compile the kernel yourself, I never used initramfs.

This was 20yrs ago. Gentoo was really a great teacher.


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spwa4yesterday at 9:48 PM

Problem with that was that you'd run literally every module initialization and occasionally there were some that crashed the kernel.

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