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    It should be noted that some of these steps are optional. E.g., an initrd is not needed if your kernel has built-in capabilities to access and mount the root file-system. With EFI systems you can also skip the bootloader if the kernel is built with EFISTUB support.

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      On systemd based systems, the initramfs /init is actually systemd itself

      Seems to be a small shell script on systemd based Arch Linux.