tytso has now been rebooted on the new debian install.

Challenge: no out-of-band access.

steps to reproduce:

• make a new partition on one of the directly attached lvm volumes
• mount it to /target
• debootstrap stretch /target http://deb.debian.org/debian
• mount /dev, /sys, /proc, /dev/pts under /target
• copy /etc/resolv.conf to /target
• chroot /target /bin/bash

under the chroot

• apt-get update
• apt-get install apt-transport-https vim
• switch /etc/apt/sources.list to https; add contrib and non-free; add security and debian-updates
• apt-get dist-upgrade
• apt-get install linux-image-amd64 grub-pc aptitude lvm2 ssh acpi console-setup htop molly-guard firmware-bnx2 intel-microcode
• add the new root to /etc/fstab (use blkid to get its UUID)
• add ssh keys to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
• adjust /etc/network/interfaces
• adjust /etc/udev.d to retrieve the old interface names (avoid the unpredictable predictable interface names)
• make sure grub is installed properly to all the disks

back outside the chroot

• umount all mounted partitions
• triple check network configuration
• reboot and cross fingers

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