Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:01:17 -0500

> > Just curious, why do I need a /initrd/ directory?  As it's empty after
> > bootup, I removed it and boo! the system won't boot - kernel panic.  It
> > took me some sweat to figure this out and repair it.
>
> I beleive it is a mount point for your initrd image file (.img) which is
> needed for your kernel to boot.

This is correct. It was quite fun correcting this on a rarely rebooted system: a few months elapsed between the time that I removed the directory and the next time I rebooted.

Ed