Johannes Meixner

Regarding YUM vs. ZYPPER above in https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3428#issuecomment-3347544685 For ZYPPER I don't know about anyone who uses it. I never got any comment from anyone about it, neither at GitHub nor...

In general I think the idea is to first deprecate old backup methods in ReaR 3.0 to get users informed that we intend to remove them in a subsequent ReaR...

@edmcman I am not a "rear mkopalpba" user. I don't have a TCG Opal 2-compliant self-encrypting disk. So I cannot reproduce anything with such hardware. From what your kernel messages...

I found the following documentation in usr/share/rear/conf/default.conf ``` # The following variable, if non-empty, overrides FIRMWARE_FILES for the PBA system. OPAL_PBA_FIRMWARE_FILES=() ... # The by default empty FIRMWARE_FILES array means...

The only ReaR script that deals with OPAL_PBA_FIRMWARE_FILES is usr/share/rear/prep/OPALPBA/Linux-i386/001_configure_workflow.sh which does what default.conf tells about OPAL_PBA_FIRMWARE_FILES so by default only FIRMWARE_FILES matters. The only ReaR script that deals with...

Hmm... perhaps the 'iwlwifi' firmware issue is not the reason why the startup of the whole kernel is stuck because before that there are kernel messages that look like problems...

Another blind guess: Does the image with the kernel messages in your initial posting show where the kernel is stuck? Are there no further kernel (error or panic) messages? I.e....

Normally (i.e. for "rear mkrescue") the initrd contains all the ReaR recovery system files. What is booted when one boots for example from an ISO image that was made by...

Regarding no further messages on the console see https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2843 in particular see https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2843#issuecomment-1196588256 what usually helps when you do not have a serial console.

Regarding "PBA ... small 100 MiB size requirement": To me a 100 MiB size maximum for a bootable image looks rather arbitrary and needlessly small with nowadays disk and memory...