cleanup install docu

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@@ -18,6 +18,19 @@ The default way to interact with sysdb is to use [bob](https://git.psi.ch/linux-
Altenatively you many have on your workstation a local copy of `bob`. This can be done by installing the RPM from the pli-misc repository - https://repos.psi.ch/rhel8/latest/pli-misc/ or by installing the Python package manually. More details regaring `bob` can be found [here](https://git.psi.ch/linux-infra/bob).
## Hardware/VM Requirements
For hardware based system please check the Hardware compatibility page for
- [RHEL8](rhel8/hardware_compatibility.md)
- [RHEL9](rhel9/hardware_compatibility.md)
In any case these are the **minimal** system requirements:
- RHEL8
- RAM: 4GB
- Harddisk: 33GB
- RHEL9
- RAM: 4GB
- Harddisk: 64GB
## Sysdb Configuration
@@ -92,3 +105,27 @@ bob node set-attr $FQDN system_disk=md126
```
It is also possible to customize the partitioning by using the `partitions` attribute on sysdb. See https://git.psi.ch/linux-infra/bob for more details.
## BIOS / UEFI Boot
All systems should use UEFI boot for booting! BIOS based boot should only be used where UEFI is not an option.
### UEFI
__NOTE:__ After the installation the boot order will be changed to localboot again! So if you reinstall make sure that you re-set the bootorder via the efi menu or the commandline: https://linux.die.net/man/8/efibootmgr
```bash
[root@lx-test-02 ~]# efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0004
BootOrder: 0004,0002,0000,0001,0003
Boot0000* EFI Virtual disk (0.0)
Boot0001* EFI VMware Virtual SATA CDROM Drive (0.0)
Boot0002* EFI Network
Boot0003* EFI Internal Shell (Unsupported option)
Boot0004* Red Hat Enterprise Linux
[root@lx-test-02 ~]# efibootmgr --bootorder 2,4,0,1,3
```
(there is no need to have the leading 000 )