Hello, Mathieu Othacehe <[email protected]> skribis:
>> For another future patch: Hmm, should we make this optional? I didn't have >> an initrd for many years. > > Well I tried to run GuixSD without initrd and it's not possible > yet. Besides mounting root partition, it's also used to start the > initial guile script (/run/current-system/boot). > > However, that's something I'd like to see :) I think it’s hard to achieve in general, unless you build the relevant disk and file system drivers directly inside your kernel. (The whole point of the initrd is that you can keep a small kernel build and then populate the initrd with the modules that are needed to mount the root file system.) (I’ll comment on the other issues separately!) Ludo’.
