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efiboot.img is bloated

The ISO includes the kernel and initramfs twice. Once in ISO 9660, and again in FAT (efiboot.img).

This is because systemd-boot doesn't have file system drivers, so it cannot load the kernel and initramfs from the ISO 9660 volume.

Since the releng initramfs image is huge (~45 MiB), the ISO is wasting a lot of space.

Possible solutions are:

Edited by nl6720
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