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diff --git a/working/velox-reinstall/velox-reinstall-runbook.org b/working/velox-reinstall/velox-reinstall-runbook.org deleted file mode 100644 index 0c14946..0000000 --- a/working/velox-reinstall/velox-reinstall-runbook.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,161 +0,0 @@ -#+TITLE: Velox Reinstall Runbook — DR Test of archangel + archsetup -#+AUTHOR: Craig Jennings -#+DATE: 2026-08-13 - -Context: velox's mainboard swapped Intel → AMD (Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, Radeon -890M, 96GB RAM). Old SSD intact but the new board's NVRAM has no boot entry, -and velox is ZFS root + ZFSBootMenu, so a stock Arch USB can't even read the -pool. Decision: full reinstall via archangel + archsetup, run deliberately as -a disaster-recovery test of the ISO and scripts before the Sunday flight. -Recent backup in hand; ratio available as the working machine. - -Fallback ordering if the test finds a real gap: -- Before partitioning starts: the old system is intact — the ZBM repair - route (efibootmgr entry pointing at the ZBM loader on the ESP, then - amd-ucode swap in a chroot) is still available. -- After partitioning: the floor is a manual Arch install; the backup makes - that survivable. - -* Phase 0 — Preflight on ratio (agent-driven, done before you leave the desk) - -- [ ] Rebuild the ISO with archsetup baked in: the 2026-08-02 ISO predates - the microcode vendor-detection fix (archsetup, 2026-08-08) and was built - without ARCHSETUP_DIR at all. - #+begin_src sh - cd ~/code/archangel && sudo ARCHSETUP_DIR="$HOME/code/archsetup" ./build.sh - #+end_src - Two traps in that one line, and either alone silently produces a bare ISO - with archsetup absent (archangel, 2026-08-20). The =VAR=value= form is - required because sudo's =env_reset= discards an exported variable. And - =$HOME= is required because zsh does not expand a tilde on the right-hand - side of an assignment — the earlier =ARCHSETUP_DIR=~/code/archsetup= here - passed the literal string. build.sh now warns and reports baked/not-baked - in its closing summary, so the failure is visible rather than silent. -- [ ] build.sh fixes before the final rebuild (archangel repo): - - rsync exclude for =.ai= (keeps =archsetup/.ai/private-design/= — the - credential audit — off the portable USB stick). - - copy =installer/velox-*.conf= to =airootfs/root/= so the machine profile - is on the ISO at =/root/velox-zfs.conf=. -- [ ] Verify the ISO carries: =/code/archsetup= (with =install_cpu_microcode=), - =/root/velox-zfs.conf=, no =.ai/private-design=. Loop-mount or unsquashfs - spot-check. -- [X] USB ready (done 2026-08-13 15:25): the new ISO was copied to the Ventoy - drive, sha256-verified against the source, and the 2026-04-09 + 2026-06-16 - archangel ISOs removed. Boot the stick and pick - =archangel-2026-08-13-vmlinuz-6.18.43-lts-x86_64.iso= from the Ventoy menu. - -* Phase 1 — UEFI setup on velox (BIOS screen, before any boot) - -- [ ] Disable Secure Boot. Mandatory — the ZFS kernel modules are unsigned; - the new board ships with it enforced by factory default. -- [ ] Set the system clock. The board swap reset the RTC to 2025-01-01; - a wrong clock breaks TLS and pacman signature checks in the live env. - Rough accuracy is fine — NTP tightens it once networked. -- [ ] While you're in setup: check boot-order UI shows the USB. - -* Phase 2 — Salvage pass (live ISO, BEFORE running the installer) — REQUIRED - -NOT optional insurance. Verified 2026-08-13: velox's newest truenas backup is -DAILY.0 = 2026-07-06 — five weeks stale. The backup timer on velox broke -around Jul 6 (truenas itself only went dark Jul 24, and it's back now; ratio -and mybitch backed up today). Everything since Jul 6 exists only on the old -SSD — including =wolf.conf.gpg= (created Jul 29), which is therefore in NO -backup at all. This pass also keeps the repair fallback alive until -partitioning starts. - -- [ ] Network up (=nmtui= or ethernet), then confirm clock: =timedatectl=. -- [ ] Import the old pool read-only and unlock: - #+begin_src sh - zpool import -N -o readonly=on -R /mnt zroot - zfs load-key zroot # passphrase prompt - zfs mount zroot/ROOT/default - zfs mount -a 2>/dev/null # home datasets etc.; ignore failures - #+end_src -- [ ] Push a full fresh backup to truenas over the LAN — mirror the layout - the backup job uses (etc + home), into a clearly-named one-off dir: - #+begin_src sh - rsync -aHAX --info=progress2 /mnt/etc /mnt/home \ - truenas:/mnt/vault/backups/velox/pre-reinstall-2026-08-13/ - #+end_src - (=/usr= is in the regular backups but is all reinstallable — skip unless - paranoid. The 96GB-RAM board will not be the bottleneck; the LAN is.) -- [ ] Spot-check the copy landed: =wolf.conf.gpg=, =.ssh=, =.gnupg=, newest - files in =~/documents= and =~/downloads=. -- [ ] Check for uncommitted repo work and either push or note it: - =~/.emacs.d= (known: the auto-dim-other-buffers.el unresolved merge), - =~/.dotfiles=, anything under =~/code=. -- [ ] Export cleanly: =cd /; zfs unmount -a; zpool export zroot=. - -* Phase 3 — Install (the actual DR test) - -- [ ] Review the profile, then run the installer: - #+begin_src sh - less /root/velox-zfs.conf # FILESYSTEM=zfs, HOSTNAME=velox, single nvme - archangel --config-file /root/velox-zfs.conf - #+end_src - Note: the profile's ZFS_PASSPHRASE / ROOT_PASSWORD are the =welcome= - placeholders — fine for install; both change post-install (=zfs change-key - zroot= for the pool, =passwd= for root). -- [ ] Record every rough edge as a DR-test finding — that's the point of - running it this way. Anything that needs a manual nudge gets a todo entry - in archangel or archsetup afterward. -- [ ] Reboot into ZBM → boot the new environment. - -* Phase 4 — archsetup (first boot of the installed system) - -- [ ] Log in as root, network up, then verify the clock synced. -- [ ] Get archsetup — two paths, test the offline one since this is a DR - drill (the online curl path is the everyday alternative): - #+begin_src sh - # offline: mount the install USB and copy the baked tree - mount /dev/disk/by-label/ARCHANGEL* /mnt 2>/dev/null || mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt - cp -r /mnt/code/archsetup /root/archsetup && cd /root/archsetup - ./archsetup - #+end_src -- [ ] Expected on the new board: =install_cpu_microcode= detects - AuthenticAMD and installs amd-ucode (verified 2026-08-13, 7/7 tests). - Podman socket, camera udev rule, tlp radio state, ZFS /tmp mask are all - in the installer now — none need manual application afterward. -- [ ] archsetup clones + stows dotfiles. The velox host tier has no Intel - assumptions (swept 2026-08-13); maint's capability probe runtime-detects - amd-pstate. - -* Phase 5 — Post-install restore + verification - -- [ ] Restore from backup (credentials, ssh keys, gpg, user data). The - secrets-bundle-in-ISO design is not built yet — manual restore is the - known gap, not a test failure. -- [ ] WireGuard: decrypt + re-place =wolf.conf.gpg= at =~/.config/wireguard/=; - re-import the NM profile (autoconnect off, as before). -- [ ] Change the placeholder passwords: =passwd=, =zfs change-key zroot=. -- [ ] PSR workaround — REQUIRED on this board. The Ryzen AI 300 has a known - idle instability (Panel Self Refresh hangs/reboots the machine; hit during - the live session 2026-08-13). Add =amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x610= to the - installed system's kernel command line — velox boots via ZBM, so set it on - the pool: =zfs set org.zfsbootmenu:commandline="... amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x610" zroot/ROOT/default= - (keep the existing args; append). Revisit after a BIOS update ≥3.05 or a - kernel that fixes PSR on Strix Point — track via the Framework issue - tracker (SoftwareFirmwareIssueTracker #110). -- [ ] New-hardware spot-checks: - - =journalctl -k | grep -i microcode= — amd-ucode applied. - - =cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_driver= — expect - amd-pstate(-epp). - - wifi + bluetooth up (new board radios), touchpad behavior, camera. - - =glxinfo -B= / =vulkaninfo --summary= — Radeon 890M on RADV. -- [ ] Fresh clones automatically carry the post-purge rewritten git history — - closes the clone-reconcile rider from 2026-08-11 without action. -- [ ] Fix and verify the backup timer on the fresh install — it was silently - broken since ~Jul 6. After the first manual run succeeds, confirm a new - DAILY.0 appears under =truenas:/mnt/vault/backups/velox/=. Diagnose why it - broke (timer unit dead? mount failure? credential?) if the old journal - survives in the salvage copy. -- [ ] Update the machine-identity memory: velox is now AMD (amd-pstate), - both daily drivers AMD. Fix the stale =intel_pstate= comment in - =airplane-mode= line 6 while at it (cosmetic). -- [ ] File every DR-test finding in the owning project's todo. - -* Timing - -Today is Thursday; the flight is Sunday. Target: Phases 0–4 tonight or -Friday, leaving Saturday as pure buffer. If the install stalls past Friday -evening, cut losses to the manual-install floor. diff --git a/working/velox-reinstall/velox-uefi-boot-entry-reference.org b/working/velox-reinstall/velox-uefi-boot-entry-reference.org deleted file mode 100644 index 53e6511..0000000 --- a/working/velox-reinstall/velox-uefi-boot-entry-reference.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,108 +0,0 @@ -#+TITLE: Velox UEFI Boot Entry — Recovery Reference -#+AUTHOR: Craig Jennings -#+DATE: 2026-08-15 - -Captured 2026-08-15 before a BIOS update (03.05 → 04.02) as insurance against -the update clearing NVRAM. Velox's mainboard swap on 2026-08-13 left exactly -this kind of empty NVRAM, which is what forced the reinstall — so a cleared -boot entry is the specific failure worth being able to undo in one command -rather than reconstruct. - -* Before recreating anything: check Secure Boot first - -The 04.02 update landed on 2026-09-12 (staged via fwupd, flashed on the next -reboot). It did NOT clear NVRAM: Boot0001 survived with its command line -intact. What it did was re-enable Secure Boot (Enforce Secure Boot = -Enabled), so the unsigned ZBM loader was rejected and the Framework BIOS -reported it as "Default Boot Device Missing / no bootable drive" rather than -a security violation. The symptom is indistinguishable from the NVRAM wipe -this document was written for. - -The tell: booting the Ventoy stick shows shim's MOK management screen. - -Fix: F2 → Security → Secure Boot → Enforce Secure Boot = Disabled, F10. The -machine then boots straight into ZBM. No efibootmgr needed. - -So when velox says no bootable device after a firmware update, check Secure -Boot before touching the boot entries. Only if Secure Boot is already off -and =efibootmgr -v= (from the stick) shows Boot0001 gone does the recreate -below apply. - -Before any future firmware update, record both =efibootmgr -v= and the -Secure Boot state so the post-reboot diagnosis is a comparison, not a guess. -The pre-firmware-update checklist in -[[file:../../docs/workflows/system-health-check.org][docs/workflows/system-health-check.org]] -(Phase 3) carries the steps. - -Still open: velox's ESP has no removable-media fallback (=/efi/EFI/BOOT= -does not exist), so a real NVRAM wipe would still need the stick. Copying -=zfsbootmenu.efi= to =/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI= would let it boot unaided. -That belongs to archangel's ZBM install, where it is filed as [#C] -"Installed systems have no removable-media boot fallback on the ESP" -(2026-09-12) and ships with the next ISO rebuild after it lands. - -* State at capture - -- BIOS: 03.05 (2025-10-30) -- BootCurrent: 0001 -- BootOrder: 2001,0001,2002,2003 (USB ahead of ZBM — why the Ventoy stick - boots when it's inserted) -- Timeout: 0 seconds - -* The entry that matters - -=Boot0001* ZFSBootMenu= - -| field | value | -|----------------+----------------------------------------------| -| ESP part GUID | 8e51b680-f90a-444f-8da5-7e4f93625775 | -|----------------+----------------------------------------------| -| partition | 1 (GPT), start 0x800, size 0x100000 | -|----------------+----------------------------------------------| -| loader path | =\EFI\ZBM\zfsbootmenu.efi= | -|----------------+----------------------------------------------| -| cmdline (data) | =spl_hostid=0x22f8a7a1 zbm.timeout=3= | -| | =zbm.prefer=zroot zbm.import_policy=hostid= | -|----------------+----------------------------------------------| - -The =data= field is that command line in UTF-16LE, which is how efibootmgr -passes it as optional data. Recreate with =-u= and the plain string; efibootmgr -does the encoding. - -* Recreating it - -From a booted system (or the archangel ISO), with the ESP identified as -=/dev/nvme0n1p1= or whatever it enumerates as: - -#+begin_src bash -efibootmgr --create \ - --disk /dev/nvme0n1 --part 1 \ - --label "ZFSBootMenu" \ - --loader '\EFI\ZBM\zfsbootmenu.efi' \ - --unicode 'spl_hostid=0x22f8a7a1 zbm.timeout=3 zbm.prefer=zroot zbm.import_policy=hostid' -#+end_src - -Confirm the disk/part against =lsblk -o NAME,PARTUUID,PARTTYPENAME= first — -the partition GUID above is the authoritative identifier, not the device name, -which can enumerate differently. - -Then set the order so ZBM is reachable: - -#+begin_src bash -efibootmgr --bootorder 0001,2001,2002,2003 -#+end_src - -(The original order put USB first. Keep whichever you prefer; what matters is -that the ZBM entry exists and is in the list.) - -* Other entries (firmware-generated, recreate themselves) - -| Boot2001 | EFI USB Device | -|----------+----------------| -| Boot2002 | EFI DVD/CDROM | -|----------+----------------| -| Boot2003 | EFI Network | -|----------+----------------| - -These are stock firmware entries and come back on their own. Only Boot0001 -carries anything unique. diff --git a/working/velox-reinstall/wttrin-bf0457f.bundle b/working/velox-reinstall/wttrin-bf0457f.bundle Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 5921866..0000000 --- a/working/velox-reinstall/wttrin-bf0457f.bundle +++ /dev/null |
