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Just set up your code as a boot-once config and wait for the owner to reboot their machine. Make your code end by booting the installed OS (or even by just rebooting again, most people will just curse about the damn slow server boot process).

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You can't do that as you don't have any access until it's being rebooted. It's basically like you're standing in front of the machine so there's not really much you can do when you're just looking at a login prompt, you have to be able to stop grub from just booting with the default options and instead boot up using init=/bin/bash or maybe if the server supports iPXE you can just chain load some payload off the internet.

You can manipulate boot settings using BMC commands. No need to mess with Grub or the running system. Instead, tell the system to boot up from an emulated USB drive (image can be attached from some remote server, often including your web browser).

Now wait for the machine to get rebooted (or do it yourself using the BMC, e.g. 'racadm serveraction powercycle' for Dell/iDRAC machines).

Even SecureBoot won't help as you can just turn it off using the BMC.

See here for a bunch of examples for Dell machines using the BMC's HTTP API:

https://github.com/dell/iDRAC-Redfish-Scripting/tree/master/...

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