Virgin-ISO nested drill closed the train: dead-NIC install baked the
fallback (incl. the dead default gateway), the R-59 screen painted
(capture committed beside the spike doc), the cable move healed +
registered at the hub in 23s unaided, and the build's rootpw file
matched the installed box's shadow hash. R-59 SHIPPED with the recorded
deviation (first-boot gate; installer-initrd abort out of scope by
operator ack). R-60 SHIPPED (spike + drill cited; F-P9 route-flush fix
included). R-61 slice 1 SHIPPED. New R-62 row (hub delete-dialog
cosmetics, XS). Capability map: new PROVEN-LIVE row (nested != metal,
said so). Cleanup verified: felhom-pve interfaces byte-identical,
bridge/VMs/ISO removed.
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R-59 no-DHCP install must hard-abort (it baked 192.168.100.2 static and
completed - a box that can never call home). R-60 first-boot NIC sweep
self-heal. R-61 the baked root password must be knowable; a fixed well-known
password is explicitly rejected.
Positive evidence same-session: R-21 slice C PROVEN on a SECOND, virgin board
(HP t740) - and the shim loader booted with Secure Boot ENABLED, retiring the
assumption that Felhom installs need SB off. Fresh-box floor lift
0.153.0 -> 0.156.0 during day-0 cited on the publish-train row.
ISO README gains the t740 five-NIC trap: the 4-port igb card gets no lease,
the onboard r8169 port does.
R-58 records the operator ruling (2026-07-21) with the argument verbatim: the
installer should list available storage devices, excluding the install media,
and let one be selected. Third ISO mode alongside unattended-serial and
match-nothing-safety; unattended stays the appliance/factory mode. Slice 1 is
the abort-screen candidate table, same enumeration code, and it collapses the
two-boot dance on its own. Matters most for BYO/reinstall, where the serial is
unknown and a wrong guess is destructive.
ISO README gains the HP section: shim proven on this board by the safety boot,
the uncommitted-armed-profile pattern, verify-from-inside-the-ISO, and a
pointer to the prior-LVM abort that is the one likely failure on a
second-hand disk.
Two jobs, one repack pass.
BRANDING. Every ISO now carries a Felhom boot screen built from the website's
og-image_2.png at repack time (ImageMagick in the assistant container), so the
boot card has ONE source and not a second pre-rendered copy in the repo to
drift. The card is scaled onto a 1024x768 gfxterm canvas, top-centered, and the
card's own subtle background grid is continued across the letterbox fill
PHASE-LOCKED to where the card's grid lands — the fill is seamless rather than a
square of grid floating in flat navy. Menu positioning needs a gfxmenu theme
(plain background_image cannot move the menu off the wordmark), so the stock
pvetheme is replaced by felhomtheme, which puts the menu in the lower third the
layout deliberately leaves empty.
SAFETY — the half that matters. The stock PVE menu offers Graphical, Terminal
UI and serial installers plus an Advanced Options submenu (nomodeset x2, three
debug variants, Rescue Boot, memtest, UEFI settings). Every one of them reaches
the MANUAL installer, whose first question is which disk to wipe. A customer, or
their helpful nephew, must not be able to get there from a boot menu. They are
not hidden and not password-gated: they are NOT EMITTED. What ships is one
entry, 'Felhom telepítés', default, 5s.
Boot behavior is unchanged. The kernel/append and initrd lines are lifted
VERBATIM from the ISO's own 'Install Proxmox VE (Automated)' entry rather than
frozen into a copy here, so a PVE bump tracks automatically; the build fails if
they cannot be found, if the append line has lost proxmox-start-auto-installer,
or if auto-installer-mode.toml is absent (which would mean the one Felhom-
labelled entry boots a manual installer). The rendered menu is then gated for
exactly 1 entry, 0 submenus, and zero references to proxtui/proxdebug/nomodeset/
Rescue Boot/memtest/fwsetup — and re-verified by reading the menu back OUT of
the finished ISO, not merely out of the extract tree.
mkimage-surgery.sh -> iso-repack.sh: branding and the slice-B loader swap need
the same extract -> modify -> re-master cycle, so they share one pass instead of
re-mastering twice. The mkimage recipe is untouched. The embedded module list is
still derived from the STOCK grub.cfg (snapshotted before branding rewrites it),
plus gfxmenu's bitmap/bitmap_scale/trig renderer deps.
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Waiting to be bound is the NORMAL state of a freshly installed box, and it must
not be reported as failure. The PAIRING poll loop used to BE systemd's
Restart=on-failure/RestartSec=30 — one poll per invocation, exiting non-zero
until the bind landed — so every 30s systemd printed "Failed to start Felhom
host bootstrap" on the physical console the CUSTOMER is watching. The
2026-07-18 N100 rehearsal measured 52 FAILED lines in ~11 minutes while nothing
was wrong (VALIDATION-n100-rehearsal-2026-07-18.md F6).
felhom-bootstrap.sh: run_pairing() is now a while-loop that sleeps
POLL_INTERVAL (30s — the hub-side rate is unchanged) between polls, so the unit
sits in `activating`. Registration split into register_appliance(), which
returns non-zero for a transient problem (no network yet, no identity, no
token) and is retried by the loop instead of taking the unit down. Cadence
constants: POLL_INTERVAL=30, BANNER_EVERY=10 (5 min), HEARTBEAT_EVERY=20
(10 min).
Quiet without going dark: a 204 is logged once on entry (worded so nobody reads
it as an error) and then only on the 10-minute heartbeat with elapsed minutes;
404 and unexpected codes degrade the same way. 410 STILL exits non-zero on
purpose — delivery consumed but no local env is a real crash window, and a
clean systemd restart is the right response.
Console banner: every 5 min instead of every cycle, single accented spelling
instead of the parositasra/párosításra double, and the reassurance the
rehearsal showed was missing ("Ez a képernyő magától frissül — nincs teendő a
doboznál").
felhom-bootstrap.service: TimeoutStartSec=infinity. This is load-bearing, not
cosmetic — a Type=oneshot ExecStart is killed at DefaultTimeoutStartSec (90s),
so without it systemd would kill the new in-script wait after 90 seconds and
Restart=on-failure would silently reinstate the exact spam this removes, after
appearing to work for the first three polls. Restart=/RestartSec= are kept
deliberately: they still cover the DIRECT path, a failed host-install, and 410.
Verified behaviourally, not assumed: driven in a throwaway Debian container
against a stub hub answering 204 five times then delivering — logged the wait
once plus one heartbeat, never exited between polls, then consumed the
delivery, wrote the 0600 env, fell through to the direct install in the same
invocation and exited 0. The old design produced five unit invocations and five
"Failed to start" console lines for that same sequence.
Hub endpoints, payloads, polling rate and one-shot delivery semantics are all
unchanged.
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Closes N100 F1 (HIGH): cheap AMI (AN3PLUS 0.01-class) UEFI firmware can't
relocate the ISO's stock signed GRUB from USB (relocation 0x0). The run's live
grub-mkimage workaround is now a first-class pipeline mode.
- build-felhom-iso.sh: --loader shim|mkimage (default shim, byte-for-byte
unchanged; profile-settable FELHOM_LOADER; --loader wins). Loud banner +
manifest loader:/grub-mkimage: fields + -mkimage filename suffix.
- mkimage-surgery.sh (new): post-prepare-iso, in the assistant container. Builds
a monolithic grub-mkimage loader from the ISO's own GRUB (module set from its
grub.cfg; embedded search --fs-uuid -> configfile the real menu). Swaps it into
the ISO9660 tree (real lowercase path) + the efi.img ESP; xorriso re-master
preserves BIOS-hybrid + UEFI + GPT-ESP, drops only Apple HFS+/APM. Recipe from
the N100 run evidence, not re-derived.
- Dockerfile.assistant: grub-common + grub-efi-amd64-bin + mtools + dosfstools.
profiles/n100.profile (new, mkimage + SB-off note).
- Validated on nested VM 311 (RUNBOOK-B legs): leg1 shim boots+installs under
OVMF SB-enforcing + SeaBIOS; leg2 mkimage boots+installs under SB-off; leg3
(red-proof) mkimage under SB-enforcing FAILS Access Denied (unsigned -> SB must
be OFF); leg4 surgery byte-identical payload. bash -n + shellcheck clean.
Physical N100 closure folds into the rehearsal (n100-safety match-nothing ISO
built + sha-recorded, unbooted). PXE stays a deferred R-21 note.
scripts/iso/: a DooPlex pipeline (build-felhom-iso.sh + Dockerfile.assistant) that
turns the official PVE ISO into a Felhom auto-install ISO whose first-boot stub
installs a retry-forever felhom-bootstrap unit which unattended-fetches
felhom-host-install.sh from the public felhom.eu/scripts channel and runs it until the
host is enrolled + a guest provisioned. host-install is UNMODIFIED (invoked only).
- build gates the answer on validate-answer OUTPUT text, never $? (spike S1 exit-0 trap)
- stub is from-iso, fully-up, exactly-once; retry unit owns all network work (S8a)
- retry-vs-resume encoded once: plain first, --resume when install state exists (v1.11.3)
- secret-bearing (embeds the retrieval passphrase): supervised/single-use; env shredded on success
Validated on VM 310: build gate + red-proof, disk-filter fail-safe, chain + retry,
resume-decision, exactly-once, no-net retry+recovery. Terminal host-install rc-0 success
operator-gated (drill customer needs the password-gated create-UI). scripts v1.16.0;
ROADMAP R-21 -> in-progress. Detail in REPORT.md.
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