Post #3222184

If you're not encrypting or RAIDing your root fs, you may be able to get away without an initrd at all. You just need to make sure you build enough drivers into the kernel to be able to mount the root fs. Once that's done, the kernel will be able to late-load any other needed modules or firmware. (The machine I'm typing on right now has no initrd, and neither do any of my others.)