We installed the boot disk Keith provided into a new boot server called x1boot1. Thats to Keith's extensive prep work, the install was very quick. We moved the fast front end computer x1susey from the 2.6 boot server over to the new 3.0.8 server. Next tasks are to rebuild the models on this machine.
x1susey ~ # uname -a
Linux x1susey 3.0.8 #3 SMP Wed Mar 9 16:13:18 CST 2016 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux