Johannes Meixner

@OliverO2 thank you so much to remind us on what we already have in ReaR! In this case we have it because you had contributed it to ReaR. I am...

With https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/2705 merged "rear format" has now in addition to the --efi switch a --bios switch. If none is given (i.e. by default) it will now do hybrid formatting with...

I postponed this issue to ReaR 2.8

I won't find noticeable time for this pull request until ReaR 2.7 was released, cf. https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2751 so I set this pull request's milestone to ReaR v2.8 i.e. after ReaR 2.7...

@rear/contributors do you perhaps have some ideas what I might try out to determine the root cause or even solve the issue?

Got it! It has nothing to do with video mode. The reason is the kernel 'console' setting which is by default `console=ttyS0,9600` (at least for OUTPUT=ISO). Removing `console=ttyS0,9600` makes it...

This helped me to see the actual root cause: https://serverfault.com/questions/708447/probing-edd-boot-message-stays-for-ten-minutes-on-centos-6-6 Therein this answer: ``` I had the same symptoms but the problem was that the vmware console wasn't showing the...

It seems the "Overhauled serial console support code" cf. https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/2699 in ReaR 2.7 caused some regression in some cases. At least there is (at least usually) an easy workaround: Adjust...

@hpannenb could you describe more percisely what exactly you experience? For me with ReaR 2.7 defaults I only do not see the recovery system startup messages but all works normally...

@hpannenb thank you! Now I understand what dialog(s) you mean.