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Old 10-24-2012, 04:07 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by choff View Post
it is true that you cannot run the kernel without an initramfs.
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That is not true in the general case.

It might be true for your current application of a kernel to a specific device, but your post did not include that information.

The only requirements to "run a kernel" is:
a file system to mount as the root file system,
a program to run as process ID 1,
/dev/console,
as a result of the second requirement, often also:
/dev/null

There may be additional requirements of what process you run, but the kernel itself will run with the above requirements met.
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