Clonezilla Live runs a Debian-signed kernel whose modules (usb-storage,
uas, exfat) are signed by the same build key, so the menu now starts it
through Debian's Microsoft-signed shim with the iPXE shim command, the
same way Blancco uses Ubuntu's. prepare-boot-tools.sh extracts that shim
from the Clonezilla release (EFI/boot/bootx64.efi -> clonezilla/
shimx64.efi) and warns when the shim is not Microsoft-signed or the
kernel not Debian-signed.
Memtest86+ is unsigned and needed Secure Boot off; memory tests now use
the Dell built-in diagnostics (F12 at power-on, Diagnostics), noted in
the menu. The playbook removes the old memtest web dir. Nothing on the
menu needs Secure Boot off any more; the 'disable Secure Boot' screen
remains only as the fallback when a signed path fails.
H1 corp_admin_cidrs (UFW 22/9009 on the corp NIC from these only; refuses
when it would lock out the current SSH client) and corp_ssh_password_auth
(sshd drop-in, passwords only from the imaging subnet). Defaults keep the
current behaviour and print a loud warning.
H2 pxe-netplan-apply.sh: pre-flight refusal (pxe-MAC NIC holds the default
route, a DHCP lease or the route to an SSH client), run from the USB
before anything changes; post-apply checks (names, imaging IPv4, corp
IPv4 back within 30 s, SSH route) and a 120 s systemd-run auto-revert.
H3 restore() puts the previous NIC names back (two-phase rename via
temporary names, so swaps work) before generate + apply.
H4 a failed rename is fatal (restore + exit 1); the play drops the old
any-interface UFW rules only after verifying both NICs and their
per-interface SSH rules.
H5 first-boot checks the playbook exit code, retries at next boot (max 5),
writes /var/lib/pxe-firstboot.failed and /etc/issue + /etc/motd banners.
M1 build-usb.sh verifies iPXE files against the playbook pins, every wheel
against its own package's hashes, drops the unpinned pip fallback,
requires --site-vars or --no-site-vars.
M2 webapp restarts when the code, wheels or unit changed.
M3 ignore-carrier on the imaging NIC; ip_nonlocal_bind kept for the
apache/networkd boot race.
M4 menu suffix must match blancco_kver; missing kernel with no earlier
build is fatal; a live menu with the staged Blancco test entry is not
overwritten.
M5 build-proxmox-iso.sh is unsupported (hard exit); use build-usb --image.
M6 deploy-unattend.sh: password via SSHPASS env and sudo stdin only,
%q-quoted remote args, sha256 check of the live file; lint-unattend.py
reads PXE_SERVER/PXE_USER/PXE_PASS and uses sshpass -e.
M7 the playbook lints the unattend files before the force: yes copies
(lint-unattend.py ships on CIDATA as scripts/); pre-commit ACMR.
M8 Blancco initramfs build: no ignore_errors, pipefail, trap cleanup.
Also: Send-ImagingStage.ps1 deploy, carrier hook install tasks
(pxe-nic-carrier, networkd-dispatcher), L1 imaging-active hold
(allow_disruptive) and no iPXE downgrade below an Updates-page install,
L2 iso-volid, L3 kver pin read from the playbook, L4 cp -rL, L5 refuse
>= 4 GiB WinPE files, L6 PIP_DIR wipe guard, L7 per-package wheel hashes,
no online fallback, L8 check-updates.py (apt_pkg/cached compare, all
components, exit 2 on no debs / bad answers).
- autoinstall: dead mirror + fallback offline-install, so the installed
base is exactly the ISO's; late-commands run offline-apt-install.sh on
CIDATA packages/ (local apt repo, one transaction, errors fail the
install, log /var/log/offline-apt-install.log); first boot no longer
runs dpkg -i; real archive sources written back at the end.
- download-packages.sh --iso: unpacks the ISO's default install source
into a docker image (pxe-iso-base:<version>) and downloads there: all
updates of the base, the explicit list (zip included) and the newest
pool packages with their closure; writes Packages + explicit.list and
checks the set offline in a fresh base container (--network none).
- offline-apt-install.sh: new; also used by that check (--simulate).
- build-usb.sh: ships Packages, explicit.list and the script; refuses a
set without them.
- tests/vm: pxetest-client-nosb (Secure Boot off, e1000e, SATA), one
client at a time.
- Copy the whole webapp/ tree (minus __pycache__) in build-usb.sh and
build-proxmox-iso.sh, so config, services/, views/ and
blancco_evidence_monthly.py reach the server.
- sfdisk --append failure now aborts; the CIDATA partition is the one
starting exactly at the computed sector, and nothing that starts
before it is ever formatted (the old fallback hit the ISO's EFI
partition).
- Volume id and El Torito load sizes come from the ISO
(xorriso -report_el_torito as_mkisofs); grub.cfg must contain
autoinstall after patching.
- --image FILE SIZE|auto builds the same layout in a file without root
(mkfs.vfat -C + mtools, sfdisk on the file). Plus --payload-root,
--skip-enrollment/-bios/-drivers/-boot-tools, --yes.
- tests/vm: libvirt harness (pxetest-server, pxetest-client, isolated
pxetest-imaging network) with fetch-iso/build-image/create/start/
status/stop/destroy.
Workstation reorganization:
- All build/deploy/helper scripts moved into scripts/ (paths updated to use
REPO_ROOT instead of SCRIPT_DIR so they resolve sibling dirs from the new
depth)
- New config/ directory placeholder for site-specific overrides
- Removed stale: mok-keys/, test-vm.sh, test-lab.sh, setup-guide-original.txt,
unattend/ (duplicate of moved playbook/FlatUnattendW10.xml)
- README.md and SETUP.md structure listings updated, dead "Testing with KVM"
section removed
- .claude/ gitignored
Enrollment share internal taxonomy (forward-looking; existing servers
unaffected since they keep their current boot.wim with flat paths):
- Single SMB share kept (WinPE only mounts one Y: drive), but content now
organised into ppkgs/, scripts/, config/, shopfloor-setup/, pre-install/{bios,
installers}, installers-post/cmm/, blancco/, logs/
- README.md deployed to share root explaining each subdir
- New playbook tasks deploy site-config.json + wait-for-internet.ps1 +
migrate-to-wifi.ps1 explicitly (were ad-hoc on legacy servers)
- BIOS subdir moved into pre-install/bios/, preinstall/ renamed to pre-install/
- startnet.cmd + startnet-template.cmd updated with new Y:\subdir\ paths
- Bumped GCCH PPKG references v4.9 -> v4.10
Blancco USB-build fixes (so next fresh USB install boots Blancco end-to-end
without the manual fixup we did against GOLD):
- grub-blancco.cfg: kernel/initrd switched HTTP -> TFTP (GRUB's HTTP module
times out on multi-MB files); added modprobe.blacklist=iwlwifi,iwlmvm,btusb
(WiFi drivers hang udev on Intel business PCs)
- grubx64.efi rebuilt from updated cfg
- Playbook task added to create /srv/tftp/blancco/ symlinks pointing at the
HTTP-served binaries
run-enrollment.ps1: OOBEComplete is now set AFTER PPKG install (Win11 22H2+
hangs indefinitely if OOBEComplete is set before the bulk-enrollment PPKG runs).
Also includes deploy-bios.sh / pull-bios.sh / busybox-static / models.txt
that were sitting untracked at the repo root.
