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by amarshall 1834 days ago
Sure, but that still doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t work. I can successfully direct kernel boot a VM where the entire filesystem is just a single statically-linked binary and it boots and runs it (just set init= or put the binary at /sbin/init). Some programs might need /proc /sys /tmp, etc., and if they do a bit more work needs to be done of course, but not all do.