#!/bin/sh # Blancco PXE Loader - init script for custom initramfs # Boot chain: iPXE -> GRUB EFI -> Ubuntu kernel + this initramfs -> switch_root to Blancco # # Blancco's own kernel freezes / lacks NIC drivers for some Dell Precision # hardware during PXE boot. Workaround: boot Ubuntu kernel (which has a wider # NIC driver set), download Blancco rootfs (squashfs), overlay-mount, and # switch_root into Blancco's userspace. # # Verbose trace + shell-on-NIC-failure because silent hangs during Blancco # PXE boot are painful to debug. set -x goes to /dev/console so the screen # shows every step; if no NIC appears after the modprobe sweep, we dump # dmesg / lspci / /proc/modules and drop to sh so the operator can # investigate without re-imaging. exec >/dev/console 2>&1 set -x echo "" echo "============================================" echo " Blancco PXE loader (verbose)" echo "============================================" echo "" export PATH=/bin:/sbin mount -t proc proc /proc mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys mount -t devtmpfs devtmpfs /dev 2>/dev/null || mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /dev mkdir -p /tmp /run /run/lower /run/upper /run/work /run/newroot KVER=$(uname -r) echo "Running kernel: $KVER" ls /lib/modules/ 2>/dev/null echo "[1/5] Loading NIC drivers via modprobe (resolves deps automatically)..." # Throw the full common-NIC driver list at the wall. modprobe resolves the # deps from /lib/modules/$KVER/modules.dep (built by prepare-boot-tools). # Anything missing is silently ignored; whatever matches PCI IDs will bind. for drv in \ mii libphy ptp \ e1000 e1000e igb igc ixgbe ixgbevf i40e ice iavf \ tg3 bnx2 bnx2x bnxt_en b44 \ r8169 r8152 atlantic \ vmxnet3 virtio_net virtio_pci \ pcnet32 8139too 8139cp \ sfc sfc_ef100 mlx4_en mlx5_core \ alx atl1c atl1e atl2 \ via_rhine via_velocity forcedeth \ pegasus dm9601 asix ax88179_178a cdc_ether cdc_ncm rndis_host; do modprobe -v "$drv" 2>/dev/null && echo " OK $drv" || true done sleep 3 echo "[2/5] /sys/class/net after driver load:" ls /sys/class/net/ || true ip link || true echo " Waiting up to 60s for non-lo interface..." IFACE="" for i in $(seq 1 60); do for n in /sys/class/net/*; do name="${n##*/}" [ "$name" = "lo" ] && continue [ -d "$n" ] && IFACE="$name" && break 2 done sleep 1 echo -n "." done echo "" if [ -z "$IFACE" ]; then echo "ERROR: No network interface after 60s" echo "=== dmesg tail ==="; dmesg | tail -40 echo "=== PCI devices (sysfs) ==="; ls /sys/bus/pci/devices/ 2>/dev/null echo "=== loaded modules ==="; cat /proc/modules echo "Dropping to shell - type 'exit' to reboot." exec /bin/sh fi echo " IFACE=$IFACE, bringing up..." ip link set "$IFACE" up || ifconfig "$IFACE" up sleep 2 SERVER=10.9.100.1 ifconfig "$IFACE" 10.9.100.250 netmask 255.255.255.0 up sleep 1 echo " IP: 10.9.100.250 SERVER: $SERVER" ip addr echo "[3/5] Downloading airootfs.sfs (~756 MB)..." wget -O /tmp/airootfs.sfs http://$SERVER/blancco/arch/x86_64/airootfs.sfs 2>&1 [ -s /tmp/airootfs.sfs ] || { echo "ERROR: download failed"; exec /bin/sh; } echo "[4/5] Mounting rootfs + overlay..." modprobe overlay 2>/dev/null || insmod /lib/modules/$KVER/kernel/fs/overlayfs/overlay.ko 2>/dev/null modprobe squashfs 2>/dev/null || insmod /lib/modules/$KVER/kernel/fs/squashfs/squashfs.ko 2>/dev/null modprobe loop 2>/dev/null losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/airootfs.sfs mount -t squashfs -o ro /dev/loop0 /run/lower mount -t tmpfs -o size=50% tmpfs /run/upper mkdir -p /run/upper/upper /run/upper/work mount -t overlay overlay -o lowerdir=/run/lower,upperdir=/run/upper/upper,workdir=/run/upper/work /run/newroot echo "[5/5] Fetching kmod tarball + config..." wget -O /tmp/kmod.tar.gz http://$SERVER/blancco/kmod.tar.gz 2>&1 [ -s /tmp/kmod.tar.gz ] && (cd /run/newroot && gunzip -c /tmp/kmod.tar.gz | tar xf - && rm -f /tmp/kmod.tar.gz) mkdir -p /run/newroot/albus wget -O /run/newroot/albus/config.xml http://$SERVER/blancco/config-clean.xml 2>&1 || true wget -O /run/newroot/albus/preferences.xml http://$SERVER/blancco/preferences.xml 2>&1 || true cp -f /run/newroot/albus/preferences.xml /run/newroot/albus/preferences.save 2>/dev/null || true mkdir -p /run/newroot/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d cat > /run/newroot/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-failsafeDriver.conf << XEOF Section "Device" Identifier "Failsafe Video Device" Driver "modesetting" EndSection XEOF mkdir -p /run/newroot/proc /run/newroot/sys /run/newroot/dev /run/newroot/run /run/newroot/tmp mount --move /proc /run/newroot/proc mount --move /sys /run/newroot/sys mount --move /dev /run/newroot/dev echo "Switching root..." exec switch_root /run/newroot /sbin/init