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Rename PXE installer menu entry, add vanilla NixOS minimal netboot entry
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The iPXE menu's "nixos" entry actually chain-loads this flake's own custom auto-installer image, not a stock NixOS image — rename it to "auto-installer" (label "NixOS Auto-Installer") so the menu says what it boots, and set networking.hostName on netbootSystem to match, so the generated system name (nixos-system-auto-installer-*) and staged directory (/srv/pxe/http/auto-installer) agree with the menu entry too. Add a second, genuinely vanilla NixOS minimal netboot image (netbootMinimalSystem in flake.nix — nixpkgs' netboot-minimal.nix on its own, none of modules/installer/common.nix's auto-installer wiring), built from source the same way as the auto-installer image and exposed as packages.x86_64-linux.pxe-minimal. Staged and menu-wired the same way, as "nixos-minimal" (item, hostname, and directory all matching). modules/pxe-boot/stage-installer-artifacts.nix is generalized to stage both images via a shared rule-builder instead of one hardcoded set of paths. Verified: nix eval confirms both images' config.system.name matches their menu entry/directory names, the pxe-boot host itself builds clean with the new menu.ipxe, and the new pxe-minimal image was booted directly under QEMU (kernel+initrd, no KVM) to a working login shell with hostname nixos-minimal, no hang.
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The `pxe` variant is also built automatically as part of the `pxe-boot` host
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itself (`modules/pxe-boot/stage-installer-artifacts.nix`) and served over
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iPXE — see `docs/pxe-boot.md`.
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iPXE as the menu's "NixOS Auto-Installer" entry — see `docs/pxe-boot.md`.
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That same host also builds and serves `packages.x86_64-linux.pxe-minimal`,
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a vanilla NixOS minimal netboot image with none of this auto-installer's
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wiring, as a separate "NixOS Minimal" menu entry — also documented in
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`docs/pxe-boot.md`, not covered further here since it's not this installer.
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## Host keys
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# pxe-boot
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The `pxe-boot` host serves HTTP boot assets for iPXE clients — including a
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self-staged copy of this flake's own auto-installer netboot image, see
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`docs/auto-installer.md` for what that image actually is and does once
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booted.
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The `pxe-boot` host serves HTTP boot assets for iPXE clients — including
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self-staged copies of both this flake's own auto-installer netboot image
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(see `docs/auto-installer.md` for what that image actually is and does once
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booted) and a vanilla, unmodified NixOS minimal netboot image for plain
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rescue/inspection use.
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## Host Role
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/srv/pxe
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/srv/pxe/http
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/srv/pxe/http/images
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/srv/pxe/http/nixos
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/srv/pxe/http/auto-installer
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/srv/pxe/http/nixos-minimal
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/srv/pxe/http/systemrescue
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/srv/pxe/http/ubuntu
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/srv/pxe/http/rescue
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Mount shared image storage under `/srv/pxe/http`, preferably
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`/srv/pxe/http/images` unless a menu entry expects files in a specific
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directory such as `/srv/pxe/http/nixos`.
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directory such as `/srv/pxe/http/auto-installer`.
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The HTTP iPXE chain is:
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@@ -50,20 +52,37 @@ undionly.kpxe or ipxe.efi
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The generated menu currently exposes entries for:
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- NixOS installer
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- NixOS Auto-Installer
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- NixOS Minimal
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- SystemRescue environment
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- iPXE shell
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- Reboot
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The NixOS installer entry chain-loads `/srv/pxe/http/nixos/netboot.ipxe`,
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which is nixpkgs' own generated netboot iPXE script (correct `init=`/`initrd=`
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kernel parameters included) rather than a hand-rolled boot line — that script
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in turn expects its kernel/initrd siblings in the same directory. All three
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files (`bzImage`, `initrd`, `netboot.ipxe`) are built from this flake's own
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`modules/installer/iso.nix` netboot image (the same one `nix build .#pxe`
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produces) and staged automatically by
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`modules/pxe-boot/stage-installer-artifacts.nix` via `systemd.tmpfiles.rules`
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— no manual operator step required.
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Both NixOS entries chain-load a `netboot.ipxe` staged into their own
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directory (`/srv/pxe/http/auto-installer/netboot.ipxe` and
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`/srv/pxe/http/nixos-minimal/netboot.ipxe`), each nixpkgs' own generated
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netboot iPXE script (correct `init=`/`initrd=` kernel parameters included)
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rather than a hand-rolled boot line — that script in turn expects its
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kernel/initrd siblings in the same directory. Each directory's three files
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(`bzImage`, `initrd`, `netboot.ipxe`) are built from source and staged
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automatically by `modules/pxe-boot/stage-installer-artifacts.nix` via
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`systemd.tmpfiles.rules` — no manual operator step required:
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- `auto-installer` is this flake's own `netbootSystem` (`flake.nix`) — the
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same auto-installer image `nix build .#pxe` produces. See
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`docs/auto-installer.md`.
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- `nixos-minimal` is `netbootMinimalSystem` (`flake.nix`) — nixpkgs'
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`netboot-minimal.nix` composed on its own, with none of this flake's
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auto-installer wiring (no `common.nix`, no `auto-install.sh`, no baked
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host keys or custom users). Same `nix build .#pxe-minimal` mechanism as
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the auto-installer image, just a different module composition. Useful
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as a plain rescue/inspection shell that doesn't assume anything about
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this flake.
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Both images set `networking.hostName` to match their menu entry/staged
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directory name (`auto-installer` / `nixos-minimal`), so each one's
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generated system name (`nixos-system-<name>-*`) is self-describing rather
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than the nixpkgs default of `nixos-system-nixos-*` for both.
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The SystemRescue entry expects the source ISO at:
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