> What you should consider is that this initramfs setup allows you to > pull the disk from your (possibly dead) computer and stuff it into > some other (with hopefully similar architecture) and you have at > least a fair chance that the thing will boot, because at initramfs > time some modules are magically available.
I've also often used the iniramfs as a kind of "rescue disk" when my system failed to boot for a reason or another. I also use it when I need to rename the VG of my root disk (tho I can't see why LVM doesn't let me rename those things live). Stefan