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+# Felhom ISO build profile — HP mini (second pilot board, 2026-07-21).
+#
+# Same shape as profiles/n100.profile, with ONE deliberate difference: the loader default is left at
+# the stock signed `shim` chain rather than `mkimage`.
+#
+# WHY: `mkimage` exists to work around the N100's early AMI (AN3PLUS-class) firmware, which cannot
+# USB-boot the ISO's stock signed GRUB (VALIDATION-n100-baremetal F1, `relocation 0x0`). That is a
+# defect of that firmware, not a Felhom requirement. HP business-desktop firmware is Secure-Boot
+# capable and generally standards-compliant, so `shim` is the one to try FIRST — it keeps Secure
+# Boot working, which `mkimage` cannot (it is unsigned; an SB-enforcing board refuses it outright
+# with "Access Denied" — proven, RUNBOOK-B leg 3).
+#
+# The board's firmware is nevertheless UNKNOWN until it is in hand, so BOTH loader variants are
+# built from this one profile — the AMI lesson is to carry both rather than make one trip:
+#   bash scripts/iso/build-felhom-iso.sh … --profile scripts/iso/profiles/hp.profile --pairing --loader shim
+#   bash scripts/iso/build-felhom-iso.sh … --profile scripts/iso/profiles/hp.profile --pairing --loader mkimage
+#
+# ⚠ THIS PROFILE IS DELIBERATELY INERT — it ships the MATCH-NOTHING disk filter as a safety default,
+#   exactly like n100.profile. Built as-is it is the `hp-safety` pre-flight ISO: it boots the full
+#   installer path and then ABORTS having touched no disk (spike S5c). That is the point — the first
+#   thing a brand-new board ever runs should be provably harmless, and it proves the loader + Secure
+#   Boot setting before anything destructive exists on a USB stick.
+#
+#   To ARM it for the real install, do NOT edit this file: copy it to an UNCOMMITTED working profile
+#   (the n100-demo.profile precedent — a real serial and any baked key must never be committed),
+#   replace the serial below with the target SSD's real ID_SERIAL_SHORT harvested from the board
+#   pre-wipe (`lsblk -o NAME,SERIAL` / `udevadm info`), and rebuild. Confirm the serial is the
+#   INTERNAL SSD and not an attached backup drive — that check is what protected the N100's external
+#   HDD on the rehearsal run.
+
+FELHOM_FQDN="felhom-host.local"
+
+# Loader: stock signed shim (Secure Boot stays ON). Override per-build with `--loader mkimage` if the
+# board turns out to have the N100's GRUB relocation defect — and set Secure Boot OFF if you do.
+
+FELHOM_DISK_SETUP='[disk-setup]
+filesystem = "ext4"
+filter-match = "all"
+filter.ID_SERIAL_SHORT = "REPLACE-WITH-TARGET-SSD-SERIAL"'
+
+# Optional emergency/validation key baked into root's authorized_keys (blank -> not baked).
+# Leave blank here; bake it only in the uncommitted armed profile if durable break-glass is wanted:
+# FELHOM_ROOT_SSH_KEY="ssh-ed25519 AAAA... ops@felhom"