Johannes Meixner

Only as a side note FYI: I found an older issue about initrd size on POWER architecture https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/1142 but that one is about booting on ppc64 via yaboot while here...

@kai-uwe-rommel another offhanded idea what might help: In your https://github.com/rear/rear/files/14855435/rear-mkrescue-debug.log I see ``` Using '/usr/bin/mkisofs' to create ISO filesystem images ``` Nowadays 'xorrisofs' is in general considered "better" than the...

Regarding compression of the initramfs/initrd see REAR_INITRD_COMPRESSION in default.conf https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/rear-2.7/usr/share/rear/conf/default.conf#L3425 so perhaps ``` REAR_INITRD_COMPRESSION="lzma" ``` may help to get a sufficiently small initrd, see also https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/rear-2.7/usr/share/rear/conf/examples/RHEL7-PPC64LE-Multipath-PXE-GRUB.conf#L42 I suggest to report...

Regarding initrd size I see now that also on POWER the newer default ``` MODULES=( 'all_modules' ) ``` is used and accordingly your https://github.com/rear/rear/files/15097745/rear-hermes.log contains (excerpts) ``` + source /usr/share/rear/build/GNU/Linux/400_copy_modules.sh...

FYI regarding firmware files which make the initrd really big, see my numbers on x86 https://github.com/rear/rear/discussions/2640#discussioncomment-908335 ``` On my openSUSE Leap 15.2 system I get this ReaR recovery system sizes:...

I see that the NETFS backup.tar.gz is empty but currently I do not yet understand why...

I postponed it to the ReaR v3.1 milestone because things work with direct usage of /etc/rear-release so this could be cleaned up for ReaR v3.1 as time permits.

How to setup a Fedora 40 Cloud Base Image so that it can be normally used when it runs in a KVM/QEMU virtual machine: I am using here Fedora-Cloud-Base-Generic.x86_64-40-1.14.qcow2 from...

How to setup a Fedora 40 Cloud Base Image that can already be normally used in a KVM/QEMU VM so that the ReaR upstream master code can be used: A...

@lzaoral thank you for the tip how to do it more easily. This is certainly the better way for users. But I (as ReaR developer) wanted to experience myself what...