a94c203 added a RunSynchronous Path of 417 chars to both std/eng answer
files. Windows caps it at 259 and then rejects the WHOLE answer file, so
an Engineer build stopped at 'Windows could not parse or process unattend
answer file'. The live files were restored to their pre-a94c203 versions
the same day.
- The status steps now fit: Send-ImagingStage.ps1 -Persist copies itself
out of C:\Deploy (no cmd copy chain), short PowerShell switches, default
arguments left out. Longest Path is 168 chars; lint-unattend passes.
NOT deployed: these files must go live only through deploy-unattend.sh.
- scripts/deploy-unattend.sh: the only route for an answer file to a PXE
server. Lints first and refuses on any error, backs up, swaps
atomically, lints the live copy and restores the backup if that fails.
- .githooks/pre-commit (git config core.hooksPath .githooks): refuses a
commit whose staged unattend fails the linter. Verified by planting a
352-char Path (blocked) and against the exact a94c203 file (rejected).
- Boot menu: also accept SecureBoot read as hex 01, and show the raw values
in the warning so a wrong read can be diagnosed from the screen.
The floor's 8 stages are the shopfloor pipeline, and only shopfloor-setup
reports after WinPE, so every gea-standard / gea-engineer build sat at
1/8 forever with no type.
- winpe-status-push.ps1 reads the image from the Z: share mapping when no
PCTYPE is set and reports those builds as 5 steps.
- Send-ImagingStage.ps1 (deployed to _shared\Applications\extra\pxe-status)
posts steps 2-5 from the unattend: start and end of specialize, first
logon, and setup complete (succeeded). It is copied to
C:\ProgramData\PxeStatus first, because the bulk-enrollment task deletes
C:\Deploy before first logon. Best-effort: always exits 0.
- Floor rows use Standard/Engineer labels and show the image as the kind.
Tested as SYSTEM in the win11 VM (PowerShell 5.1): the exact unattend
command line, stages 3-5 against a test server, a dead port (exit 0), and
the image regex.
