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["Kaminski Kai (PSI)" <Kai.Kaminski AT psi.ch>]

Good afternoon!

I have implemented the changes described below.

Have a good weekend,

Kai

On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 16:46 +0100, Kai Kaminski wrote:
> Summary
> -------
> 
> I will implement the following changes to the PXE boot environment on
> pxeserv01.psi.ch:
> 
> - Change the sl664 boot profile to use the SL 6.7 kernel/initrd for 
> installation
>   to support the new PSI hardware (HP z240, HP EliteDesk 800 G2).
> - Remove obsolete boot profiles and files.
> - Remove broken symlinks in /afs/psi.ch/service/linux/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg.
> 
> These changes will mostly affect the file default.testing in
> /afs/psi.ch/service/linux/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/. This file is symlink-ed to
> default.
> 
> In addition, I will delete the following files/directories in
> /afs/psi.ch/service/linux/tftpboot/:
> 
> - dl/fedora18/ (obsolete)
> - proliant/    (obsolete)
> - redhat/      (unused)
> 
> 
> More details can be found below and in the attached diff.
> 
> 
> Schedule
> --------
> 
> Assuming no objections I will implement these changes this Friday, March 18.
> 
> 
> Remove obsolete profiles
> ------------------------
> 
> The following boot profiles either don't work (e.g. because the kernel 
> and/or
> initrd are missing) or provide software that is obsolete.
> 
> - afs          (missing)
> - sysrc        (missing)
> - sysrc800     (missing)
> - sysrc640     (missing)
> - pxes         (missing)
> - pxes.win     (missing)
> - pxes.llc4    (missing)
> - pxes9        (missing)
> - pxes09       (missing)
> - fedora18     (obsolete)
> - hpbladefw160 (obsolete)
> - kali         (missing)
> - kali64       (missing)
> 
> 
> Profile sl664
> -------------
> 
> The sl664 profile now uses the installer from RHEL 6.7 to avoid problems 
> with
> the network cards in the new desktop systems:
> 
> - HP z240
> - HP EliteDesk 800 G2
> 
> It also uses standard VGA text mode to avoid problems with Nvidia Quattro 
> K2200
> graphics cards.
> 
> 
> Broken symlinks
> ---------------
> 
> The following symlinks in /afs/psi.ch/service/linux/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg 
> are
> broken and will be removed:
> 
> 01-94-57-a5-56-be-5c -> ra-l-001
> 01-94-57-a5-57-24-90 -> gpfstest1
> 01-94-57-a5-57-74-a4 -> gpfstest2
> 01-94-57-a5-57-74-b4 -> gpfstest2
> 01-94-57-a5-66-33-98 -> gpfstest3
> 01-94-57-a5-66-80-78 -> gpfstest1
> 01-94-57-a5-66-82-f0 -> gpfstest2
> 01-94-57-a5-66-82-f1 -> gpfstest3
> 01-98-4b-e1-07-e9-6c -> ra-t-001
> 01-00-1a-78-00-6a-12 -> xbl-export-test
> 01-00-50-56-95-3b-8d -> daas-puppet
>