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Why has mkinitrd been deprecated in favour of mkinitramfs in 2.6 series kernels?

Why has mkinitrd been deprecated in favour of mkinitramfs in 2.6 series kernels? (Select TWO
correct answers)

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A.
It isn’t loaded until later in the boot process

B.
An easy to use GUI is available for mkinitramfs

C.
mkinitrd relies on devfs

D.
SATA hard drives are unsupported

Explanation:
see http://wiki.debian.org/InitrdReplacementOptions
Initrd-tools relies on devfs and on removed or deprecated /proc interfaces. It has no maintainer. Its
CodingStyle is weird. There is no support for sata…

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