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Two changes in one: 1. grub-blancco.cfg reverts to booting vmlinuz-ubuntu + kexec-initrd.img (the switch_root path from commitdd2fec5).b7cd097had switched back to Blancco's native vmlinuz-bde-linux via TFTP for "hardware compat," but that turned out to regress on modern Dell fleet hardware - Blancco's packaged kernel lacks igc (Intel I225/I226 on Latitude 5330/5440, Pro-series, newer OptiPlex). Symptom was successful TFTP fetch of kernel+initrd, then silence at the Blancco UI ("no network card found") because the rootfs HTTP fetch has no NIC to use. The switch_root initramfs built by the Ansible playbook now carries igc, bnxt_en, r8169, atlantic, and other modern NIC modules, so the Ubuntu kernel path reliably finds a working NIC across the whole fleet before HTTP-fetching airootfs.sfs and kexec'ing into Blancco. Native kernel still runs under Blancco's control after kexec - only the *loader* kernel changes. The grubx64.efi binary (embedding this config via grub-mkstandalone) was rebuilt and pushed to /var/www/html/blancco/ on both PXE servers (.1 and .2). Old binary kept as grubx64.efi.bak-<timestamp> on each. 2. .gitignore: negate boot-tools/blancco/grub-blancco.cfg so this one file is version-controlled. boot-tools/ is otherwise local cache artifacts (kernel/initrd/sfs extracted from Blancco ISO, grubx64.efi built output). grub-blancco.cfg is source-of-truth and must not be re-derived; any new PXE server build needs the exact same content or the Blancco boot chain regresses. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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set default=0
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set timeout=0
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set gfxpayload=text
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insmod all_video
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insmod efi_gop
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insmod efinet
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insmod net
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insmod http
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net_bootp efinet0
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net_bootp efinet1
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net_bootp efinet2
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net_bootp efinet3
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# Boot Ubuntu kernel + small custom initramfs (kexec-initrd.img).
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# The custom init brings up the NIC (drivers baked in at build time:
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# e1000e, igb, igc, bnxt_en, tg3, bnx2, b44, r8169, atlantic, ...
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# much broader than Blancco's native vmlinuz-bde-linux ships with),
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# HTTP-fetches the Blancco rootfs (airootfs.sfs + native kernel +
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# initramfs) from this PXE server, overlay-mounts the rootfs, then
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# kexecs into Blancco's environment.
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#
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# Previous native-kernel path (linux ...vmlinuz-bde-linux via TFTP)
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# was abandoned because Blancco's kernel ships with a narrow NIC
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# driver set that fails on modern Dell Latitude 5330/5440 and
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# newer 'Pro' series with Intel I225/I226 NICs - "no network card
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# found" at the Blancco UI after TFTP load succeeds.
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menuentry "Blancco Drive Eraser" {
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linux (http,10.9.100.1)/blancco/vmlinuz-ubuntu ip=dhcp
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initrd (http,10.9.100.1)/blancco/kexec-initrd.img
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}
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