1-second kernel

[Les Mikesell]

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> Konstantin Svist wrote:
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>> So my question is, how plausible is running Fedora without initrd? Don't
>> the majority of users out there have similar hardware, making initrd
>> unnecessary?
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> 'similar' is not the same as 'same'.
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> if every computer had *exact same* hardware, ok. but they are not *exactly*
> same.

It doesn't break anything to have a few unused modules linked - you 
could probably have one kernel that would make initrd unnecessary on the 
majority of desktop/laptop machines - and servers (where you need 
specific scsi drivers) typically aren't booted frequently anyway.

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