#!/usr/bin/env bash # Installs NixOS on a Leaseweb server, wiping the server. # # This is for a specific server configuration; adjust where needed. # Originally written for a Leaseweb HP DL120 G7 server. # # Prerequisites: # * Update the script to put in your SSH pubkey, adjust hostname, NixOS version etc. # # Usage: # ssh root@YOUR_SERVERS_IP bash -s < leaseweb-dedicated-wipe-and-install-nixos.sh # # When the script is done, make sure to boot the server from HD, not rescue mode again. # Explanations: # # * Following largely https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-installing-from-other-distro. # * Adapted from https://gist.github.com/nh2/78d1c65e33806e7728622dbe748c2b6a # * Following largely https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#sec-installing-from-other-distro. # * **Important:** We boot in legacy-BIOS mode, not UEFI, because that's what the HP DL120 G7 supports, # see https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-proliant/2014-June/000666.html. # * NVMe devices aren't supported for booting (those require EFI boot) # * We set a custom `configuration.nix` so that we can connect to the machine afterwards. # * This server has 2 HDDs. # We put everything on RAID1. # Storage scheme: `partitions -> RAID -> LVM -> ext4`. # * A root user with empty password is created, so that you can just login # as root and press enter when using a KVM. # Of course that empty-password login isn't exposed to the Internet. # Change the password afterwards to avoid anyone with physical access # being able to login without any authentication. # * The script reboots at the end. set -eu set -o pipefail set -x # Inspect existing disks lsblk # Undo existing setups to allow running the script multiple times to iterate on it. # We allow these operations to fail for the case the script runs the first time. set +e umount /mnt vgchange -an set -e # Stop all mdadm arrays that the boot may have activated. mdadm --stop --scan # Prevent mdadm from auto-assembling arrays. # Otherwise, as soon as we create the partition tables below, it will try to # re-assemple a previous RAID if any remaining RAID signatures are present, # before we even get the chance to wipe them. # From: # https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/166688/prevent-debian-from-auto-assembling-raid-at-boot/504035#504035 # We use `>` because the file may already contain some detected RAID arrays, # which would take precedence over our ``. echo 'AUTO -all ARRAY UUID=00000000:00000000:00000000:00000000' > /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf # Create wrapper for parted >= 3.3 that does not exit 1 when it cannot inform # the kernel of partitions changing (we use partprobe for that). echo -e "#! /usr/bin/env bash\nset -e\n" 'parted $@ 2> parted-stderr.txt || grep "unable to inform the kernel of the change" parted-stderr.txt && echo "This is expected, continuing" || echo >&2 "Parted failed; stderr: $(< parted-stderr.txt)"' > parted-ignoring-partprobe-error.sh && chmod +x parted-ignoring-partprobe-error.sh # Create partition tables (--script to not ask) ./parted-ignoring-partprobe-error.sh /dev/sda mklabel gpt ./parted-ignoring-partprobe-error.sh /dev/sdb mklabel gpt # Create partitions (--script to not ask) # # We create the 1MB BIOS boot partition at the front. # # Note we use "MB" instead of "MiB" because otherwise `--align optimal` has no effect; # as per documentation https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/unit.html#unit: # > Note that as of parted-2.4, when you specify start and/or end values using IEC # > binary units like "MiB", "GiB", "TiB", etc., parted treats those values as exact # # Note: When using `mkpart` on GPT, as per # https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/mkpart.html#mkpart # the first argument to `mkpart` is not a `part-type`, but the GPT partition name: # ... part-type is one of 'primary', 'extended' or 'logical', and may be specified only with 'msdos' or 'dvh' partition tables. # A name must be specified for a 'gpt' partition table. # GPT partition names are limited to 36 UTF-16 chars, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_entries_(LBA_2-33). ./parted-ignoring-partprobe-error.sh --align optimal /dev/sda -- mklabel gpt mkpart 'BIOS-boot-partition' 1MB 2MB set 1 bios_grub on mkpart 'data-partition' 2MB '100%' ./parted-ignoring-partprobe-error.sh --align optimal /dev/sdb -- mklabel gpt mkpart 'BIOS-boot-partition' 1MB 2MB set 1 bios_grub on mkpart 'data-partition' 2MB '100%' # Relaod partitions partprobe # Wait for all devices to exist udevadm settle --timeout=5 --exit-if-exists=/dev/sda1 udevadm settle --timeout=5 --exit-if-exists=/dev/sda2 udevadm settle --timeout=5 --exit-if-exists=/dev/sdb1 udevadm settle --timeout=5 --exit-if-exists=/dev/sdb2 # Wipe any previous RAID signatures mdadm --zero-superblock --force /dev/sda2 mdadm --zero-superblock --force /dev/sdb2 # Create RAIDs # Note that during creating and boot-time assembly, mdadm cares about the # host name, and the existence and contents of `mdadm.conf`! # This also affects the names appearing in /dev/md/ being different # before and after reboot in general (but we take extra care here # to pass explicit names, and set HOMEHOST for the rebooting system further # down, so that the names appear the same). # Almost all details of this are explained in # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606481#c14 # and the followup comments by Doug Ledford. mdadm --create --run --verbose /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 --homehost=leaseweb --name=root0 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 # Assembling the RAID can result in auto-activation of previously-existing LVM # groups, preventing the RAID block device wiping below with # `Device or resource busy`. So disable all VGs first. vgchange -an # Wipe filesystem signatures that might be on the RAID from some # possibly existing older use of the disks (RAID creation does not do that). # See https://serverfault.com/questions/911370/why-does-mdadm-zero-superblock-preserve-file-system-information wipefs -a /dev/md0 # Disable RAID recovery. We don't want this to slow down machine provisioning # in the rescue mode. It can run in normal operation after reboot. echo 0 > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max # LVM # PVs pvcreate /dev/md0 # VGs vgcreate vg0 /dev/md0 # LVs (--yes to automatically wipe detected file system signatures) lvcreate --yes --extents 95%FREE -n root0 vg0 # 5% slack space # Filesystems (-F to not ask on preexisting FS) mkfs.ext4 -F -L root /dev/mapper/vg0-root0 # Creating file systems changes their UUIDs. # Trigger udev so that the entries in /dev/disk/by-uuid get refreshed. # `nixos-generate-config` depends on those being up-to-date. # See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/62444 udevadm trigger # Wait for FS labels to appear udevadm settle --timeout=5 --exit-if-exists=/dev/disk/by-label/root # NixOS pre-installation mounts # Mount target root partition mount /dev/disk/by-label/root /mnt # Installing nix # Allow installing nix as root, see # https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/936#issuecomment-475795730 mkdir -p /etc/nix echo "build-users-group =" > /etc/nix/nix.conf curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh set +u +x # sourcing this may refer to unset variables that we have no control over . $HOME/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh set -u -x # Keep in sync with `system.stateVersion` set below! # nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-20.03 nixpkgs nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-20.03 nixpkgs nix-channel --update # Getting NixOS installation tools nix-env -iE "_: with import { configuration = {}; }; with config.system.build; [ nixos-generate-config nixos-install nixos-enter manual.manpages ]" nixos-generate-config --root /mnt # Find the name of the network interface that connects us to the Internet. # Inspired by https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14961/how-to-find-out-which-interface-am-i-using-for-connecting-to-the-internet/302613#302613 RESCUE_INTERFACE=$(ip route get 8.8.8.8 | grep -Po '(?<=dev )(\S+)') # Find what its name will be under NixOS, which uses stable interface names. # See https://major.io/2015/08/21/understanding-systemds-predictable-network-device-names/#comment-545626 # # IMPORTANT: # There is a known complication in that Linux somewhere between 4.19 and 5.4.27 # switched from classifying only 1 of the 2 network interfaces of the server as # "onboard" to classifying both as "onboard", thus "enp2s0" shows up as "eno0" # instead in newer kernels. # See: # https://gist.github.com/nh2/71854c40a1a1a7c15bc8a8105e854f88#file-analysis-md # So once the Leaseweb GRML rescue mode upgrades to a newer kernel, the value of # `NIXOS_INTERFACE` should be successfully found from `RESCUE_INTERFACE` using # the `ID_NET_NAME_ONBOARD` grep below; but until then (when the grep is empty) # we have to detect this situation, turning `enp2s0` into `eno0` ourselves, # because we want to boot a NixOS that uses the new kernel (>= 5.4.27) of which # we know that it will detect the card as "onboard" and thus call it "eno". INTERFACE_DEVICE_PATH=$(udevadm info -e | grep -Po "(?<=^P: )(.*${RESCUE_INTERFACE})") UDEVADM_PROPERTIES_FOR_INTERFACE=$(udevadm info --query=property "--path=$INTERFACE_DEVICE_PATH") set +o pipefail # allow the grep to fail, see comment above NIXOS_INTERFACE=$(echo "$UDEVADM_PROPERTIES_FOR_INTERFACE" | grep -o -E 'ID_NET_NAME_ONBOARD=\w+' | cut -d= -f2) set -o pipefail # The following `if` logic can be deleted once versions < 20.03 are no longer relevant. if [ -z "$NIXOS_INTERFACE" ]; then echo "Could not determine NIXOS_INTERFACE from udevadm, RESCUE_INTERFACE is '$RESCUE_INTERFACE'" # Set this to 1 iff you are installing a newer kernel as described in the comment above: INSTALLING_NEWER_KERNEL=1 if [ "$INSTALLING_NEWER_KERNEL" == "1" ]; then echo "INSTALLING_NEWER_KERNEL=1 is active, setting NIXOS_INTERFACE=eno0" NIXOS_INTERFACE="eno0" else echo "INSTALLING_NEWER_KERNEL=1 is NOT active, setting NIXOS_INTERFACE=$RESCUE_INTERFACE" NIXOS_INTERFACE="$RESCUE_INTERFACE" fi else echo "Determined NIXOS_INTERFACE as '$NIXOS_INTERFACE'" fi IP_V4=$(ip route get 8.8.8.8 | grep -Po '(?<=src )(\S+)') echo "Determined IP_V4 as $IP_V4" # From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1204629/how-do-i-get-the-default-gateway-in-linux-given-the-destination/15973156#15973156 read _ _ DEFAULT_GATEWAY _ < <(ip route list match 0/0); echo "$DEFAULT_GATEWAY" echo "Determined DEFAULT_GATEWAY as $DEFAULT_GATEWAY" # The Leaseweb GRML Rescue mode as of writing has no IPv6 connectivity, # so we cannot get the IPv6 address here. # Generate `configuration.nix`. Note that we splice in shell variables. cat > /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix <' (using the system hostname). # This results mdadm considering such disks as "foreign" as opposed to # "local", and showing them as e.g. '/dev/md/leaseweb:root0' # instead of '/dev/md/root0'. # This is mdadm's protection against accidentally putting a RAID disk # into the wrong machine and corrupting data by accidental sync, see # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606481#c14 and onward. # We set the HOMEHOST manually go get the short '/dev/md' names, # and so that things look and are configured the same on all such # machines irrespective of host names. # We do not worry about plugging disks into the wrong machine because # we will never exchange disks between machines. environment.etc."mdadm.conf".text = '' HOMEHOST leaseweb ''; # The RAIDs are assembled in stage1, so we need to make the config # available there. boot.initrd.mdadmConf = config.environment.etc."mdadm.conf".text; # Network # Leaseweb uses static IP assignments only, see: # https://kb.leaseweb.com/network/ipv4-address-assignment-and-usage-guidelines#IPv4addressassignmentandusageguidelines-DHCP networking.useDHCP = false; networking.interfaces."$NIXOS_INTERFACE".ipv4.addresses = [ { address = "$IP_V4"; prefixLength = 24; } ]; networking.defaultGateway = "$DEFAULT_GATEWAY"; networking.nameservers = [ "8.8.8.8" ]; # Initial empty root password for easy login: users.users.root.initialHashedPassword = ""; services.openssh.permitRootLogin = "prohibit-password"; users.users.root.openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [ # Replace this by your pubkey! "ssh-rsa AAAAAAAAAAA..." ]; services.openssh.enable = true; # This value determines the NixOS release with which your system is to be # compatible, in order to avoid breaking some software such as database # servers. You should change this only after NixOS release notes say you # should. system.stateVersion = "20.03"; # Did you read the comment? } EOF # TODO Remove once https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/85895 is merged and # backported to 20.03, or this script installs a newer version that has it. rm -f extra-grub-install-flags-20.03.tar.gz wget 'https://github.com/nh2/nixpkgs/archive/extra-grub-install-flags-20.03.tar.gz' rm -rf nixpkgs-extra-grub-install-flags-20.03 tar xf extra-grub-install-flags-20.03.tar.gz NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=$PWD/nixpkgs-extra-grub-install-flags-20.03 # Install NixOS PATH="$PATH" NIX_PATH="$NIX_PATH" `which nixos-install` --no-root-passwd --root /mnt --max-jobs 40 umount /mnt reboot