I suspect a lot of that is because of the documentation for it.
I do what is basically an initrd as part of the Mastodon
distribution, but instead of setting up an initrd, I just do all the
steps by hand and leave the user with a system that contains a 1.4mb
black hole that used to contain the ramdisk.
I've looked at the documentation in Documentation/initrd.txt, but
then my head starts hurting and I start looking around for a way to
do BIOS floppy access instead. I admit that it just may be that
I'm old and resistant to change (libc 5.0.9, anyone?), but I have
been working on Unix systems for over 20 years now and, if the
documentation is too esoteric for me, it may be too esoteric for
other people as well.
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david parsons \bi/ Old, in computer years.
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