Secure Boot iPXE chain is the default for every UEFI client

Live since 2026-10-14: dnsmasq hands every UEFI client ipxe-shim.efi
(iPXE's shim, dual-signed under Microsoft UEFI CA 2011 + 2023), which
loads ipxe.efi from the TFTP root, now the iPXE v2.0.0 snponly build
(firmware network and USB drivers; the full build kills USB keyboards).
The per-MAC test tags and folders are gone; the old Broadcom-signed
1.21.1 build stays as ipxe-bcm.efi, the rollback.

- playbook: pinned sha256 vars, the new dnsmasq default line, and a
  verified, non-optional task that installs ipxe-shim.efi, ipxe.efi
  (snponly), ipxe.pxe and ipxe-bcm.efi (was: copy ipxe.efi and the never
  served undionly.kpxe, errors ignored).
- scripts/fetch-ipxe.sh downloads the pinned tarball and shim into
  boot-files/ for the USB build; README/SETUP list the step.
- iPXE page: ipxe.efi is staged from snponly.efi, a build that drives USB
  itself is refused, and the snponly-shim/snponly root files are gone.

Tested: the playbook task against the real release files (installs the
live hashes; a tampered file stops it before anything is replaced),
ansible --syntax-check, staging, and the full-build refusal.
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2026-10-14 16:37:49 -04:00
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@@ -47,8 +47,14 @@ Client PXE boot
```bash
./scripts/download-packages.sh
./scripts/fetch-ipxe.sh
```
`fetch-ipxe.sh` downloads the Secure Boot iPXE chain into `boot-files/`, pinned by sha256: the iPXE release
tarball (its snponly build becomes `ipxe.efi`) and iPXE's dual-signed shim (Microsoft UEFI CA 2011 + 2023),
which every UEFI client boots as `ipxe-shim.efi`. Keep the old Broadcom-signed `boot-files/ipxe.efi` too: the
playbook installs it as `ipxe-bcm.efi`, the rollback boot file.
Downloads all .deb packages (ansible, dnsmasq, apache2, samba, wimtools, etc.) into `offline-packages/` and Python wheels (flask, lxml) into `pip-wheels/`. Approximately 252 packages (~140 MB) + 8 Python wheels.
**Packages included:**