[digi_owl]

I can't help think that initramfs is a pox on Linux. It seems to lead to all kinds of "solutions" that are bothersome at best to maintain unless you have big dollars at your back.

[kakwa_]

I've never quite understood it myself.

It's far from mandatory (I've run Gentoo for years without it) and when you have to fix stuff in the mkinitrd script, you just cry...