To summarize my earlier entry , the problem withinitrds is that they are both fragile and opaque. To improve them,one needs to tackle both issues.

The easy way to tackle the fragility is to make initrds both morecomprehensive and more dynamic. Since one way initrds break is by notincluding necessary kernel modules, simply include nearly everythingby default (you can exclude modules that are clearly not needed forbooting, like sound drivers); the extra disk space and boot-time memoryspace needed is likely to be