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Author SHA1 Message Date
cproudlock
ce604adcda Renumber PXE LAN from 10.9.100.0/24 to 172.16.9.0/24
Single-site bay-stuck issue at WJ: GE Intune Report IP script filters
Get-NetIPAddress on StartsWith("10.") and posts everything matching
to the GE Tines webhook. Bays at WJ get the PXE LAN 10.9.100.x IP
captured and reported -> GE backend tags bays as on a non-corp 10.x
subnet -> dynamic group eligibility for SFLD policy never matches.
Other GE sites work because their PXE LANs aren't on 10.x at all.

Renumber PXE LAN to RFC1918 172.16.9.0/24 so the GE filter naturally
skips wired PXE addresses without any disable-NIC dance.

Server-side already in flight (netplan dual-bound, dnsmasq scope +
boot URL repointed, blancco preferences + grub.cfg + iPXE GetPxeScript
all sed'd to 172.16.9.1). This commit is the playbook / scripts /
docs side: 109 hits across 35 files sed'd in one shot.

After this lands + boot.wim is rebuilt + bays renumber off DHCP,
the 10.9.100.1 binding will be dropped from netplan as the final
cleanup step.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-14 16:30:32 -04:00
cproudlock
f7a14f6804 blancco-preferences: disable wired LAN so WiFi INTERNETACCESS takes default route
The config.img internal preferences.xml has <network><enabled>false</enabled>
(set up by b7cd097 for native-kernel BMC licensing over WiFi). The sibling
playbook/blancco-preferences.xml was left at true, so the Ubuntu-kernel
switch_root path downloaded a preferences.xml that re-enabled wired LAN,
killing the WiFi default route and preventing BMC reach.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-22 15:52:44 -04:00
cproudlock
b7cd0974f1 Blancco 7.15.1 upgrade: native kernel boot, BMC cloud licensing
- Switch to Blancco native kernel (vmlinuz-bde-linux) for hardware compat
- Config.img preferences with BMC connection (classic.eu-west-1.blancco.cloud)
- Disable wired LAN in preferences so WiFi takes default route to BMC
- WiFi SSID INTERNETACCESS configured in plaintext in config.img
- Slim GRUB EFI (1.3MB standalone with minimal modules)
- Fix Windows line endings in blancco-init.sh
- Add extra NIC drivers to switch_root initramfs
- SSH enabled in modified airootfs.sfs (root:blancco)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-26 13:54:25 -04:00
cproudlock
dd2fec5a41 Blancco PXE boot via Ubuntu kernel switch_root
Blancco's own kernel freezes on Dell Precision towers during PXE boot.
Workaround: boot Ubuntu kernel via GRUB chainload, download Blancco's
666MB squashfs rootfs + 132MB kernel modules over HTTP, mount overlay
filesystem, and switch_root into Blancco's userspace.

- Add blancco-init.sh: custom initramfs init script for switch_root approach
- Add blancco-preferences.xml: pre-configured with network share for reports
- Update playbook: build initramfs, deploy Ubuntu kernel/modules, config
- Update prepare-boot-tools.sh: add HTTP modules to GRUB EFI build
- Add UEFI HTTP Boot support to dnsmasq config
- iPXE menu chains to grubx64.efi (replaces sanboot of ISO)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-18 11:20:00 -05:00