Windows boot, the "less is more" way. Windows ISOs now boot via iPXE
HTTP sanboot of the raw image — iPXE exposes the unmodified ISO as an
emulated CD backed by on-demand HTTP range reads, and Windows Setup
boots from it. This replaces the wimboot+SMB chain, which needed an SMB
server the host often can't provide (:445 collisions), served in-ISO
files via an ISO9660 lookup that failed on UDF-only Win11 ISOs, and was
gated behind a Settings toggle the WebUI never even exposed (so Windows
never booted). Now it needs only the HTTP port — works in any
environment, SMB or not — and nothing is injected into Windows (no
httpdisk.sys, no test certs, no trust-store changes; fully within the
project's hard rules).
- iso-store/store.rs: WindowsPe boot entry -> BootKind::SanBootIso of the
raw iso/<id>.iso (render_entry already emits `sanboot --no-describe`).
- iso-store/introspect.rs: broaden Windows detection for UDF-only Win10/11
ISOs — UTF-16LE markers (boot.wim/bootmgr/install.wim/microsoft),
extra ASCII markers, and a filename heuristic, since their volume
labels are cryptic and filenames are UTF-16. + unit tests.
- http-api/ipxe_script.rs: Windows installers submenu shows whenever a
Windows ISO is present — no toggle, no "disabled in Settings".
- webui: dashboard no longer flags Windows ISOs (they boot now); the
generic large-ISO warning reworded to read sensibly for genuinely
non-bootable images (e.g. VMware VCSA appliance bundles).
Storage UX:
- Available images listed alphabetically by filename.
- Upload gains a Cancel button (aborts the chunk + discards the partial).
- beforeunload warning while an upload is in flight.
263 tests pass, clippy clean. NOTE: actual Windows boot is validated on
real hardware — code/script/range-serving are validated here.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
This is the bulk pre-beta cleanup pass. Bumps the workspace to 0.2.0.
Test count is 56 -> 66 (+10), clippy is fully clean across the
workspace (was several dozen warnings).
## New features
**Per-MAC host bindings** (Tinkerbell smee pattern). New
`HostBindings` registry maps a MAC -> preferred boot target, persisted
to <work_dir>/hosts.json. The DHCP reply now embeds `?mac=${mac}` in
the boot.ipxe URL; iPXE substitutes the literal MAC client-side, so
the HTTP layer can short-circuit straight to the bound target instead
of rendering the menu. Reserved menu shortcuts (`_local`, `_gate`,
`_tools_menu`) are valid targets too. New /api/hosts CRUD + a Hosts
tab in the sidebar.
**Prometheus `/metrics`** endpoint. Tiny lock-free implementation —
just AtomicU64s and a Display impl, no `prometheus` / `metrics-rs`
dep. Counters: DHCP replies (per arch label), DHCP declined, TFTP
transfers (per status), TFTP bytes, HTTP requests (per route).
Gauges: ISO count, client count, gate count, gate-imaging, NFS active
mounts, uptime, build info. Plain text exposition format,
text/plain;version=0.0.4 content-type, no auth (all metric values are
non-sensitive counts).
**Light + dark themes**. CSS tokens on `:root` and
`:root[data-theme=light]`, swap by toggle button (top-right) or `T`
hotkey. Persisted in localStorage; pre-paint inline script avoids
dark<->light flash. Light palette designed against the Netbox Labs
reference screenshot — near-white surfaces, soft grey dividers,
accent unchanged for brand consistency. Terminal pane stays dark in
both themes (it's a console, that's the right read).
**Animated SVG logo + forge widget**. New `logo.svg` is a refined
silver/grey anvil. New `anvil-forge.svg` adds rising sparks and a
pulsing underglow via SMIL — pure SVG, no GIF, no JS animation loop.
Used:
- in the **forge progress** widget on Dashboard + Forge Gate, paired
with a `linear-gradient(warn -> accent)` bar with a moving sheen;
goes idle (greyscale, no sheen) at zero imaging load
- in the page-load `<div class=loader>` that replaces the old
"Loading..." text
## Code cleanup pass
`cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets` is now warning-free. Spot
fixes across the tree:
- `format!()`-into-`String` -> `std::fmt::Write::write!`
- manual reverse comparators -> `Reverse`
- `map_or(false, ...)` -> `is_some_and`
- redundant closures -> method references
- `r#"..."#` raw strings without `"` -> `r"..."`
- `std::io::Error::new(Other, ...)` -> `Error::other`
- `as i32` on `c.id()` -> `cast_signed()`
- merged identical match arms
## Windows workflow validation
New integration test synthesizes an ISO9660 with the SOURCES\\BOOT.WIM
sentinel, uploads it, asserts:
1. introspection labels it `windows_pe` with has_boot_wim=true,
2. the boot entry is `BootKind::Wimboot` with all five canonical
files (bootmgr, bootmgr.efi, bcd, boot.sdi, boot.wim),
3. the rendered iPXE script chains wimboot with `initrd --name`
entries for each file, and
4. NO trust-store strings appear in the rendered output: bcdedit,
testsigning, certutil, httpdisk, and test-signed are all
explicitly forbidden as a hard guarantee.
WinPE bootstrap (startnet.cmd) picks up the Bootimus v0.1.58 lessons:
explicit `net start Workstation` before `net use` to avoid the SMB
client lazy-init race, and surfaces errors instead of blind retries.
## Docs
architecture.md gains a "Phase 5" section explaining the host-bindings
+ metrics + theming + Windows-test work, plus a refreshed "deferred
to Phase 6" list (real-hardware integration, autounattend library,
distro profile manifest, WoL trigger, syslog receiver, IPv6).
README updates the status line, the "what it does" list, and adds
the new Hosts/Terminal tab names.
