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)

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

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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C.
mkinitrd relies on devfs

D.
SATA hard drives are unsupported