On Aug 7, 2009, at 22:53, Chris O'Regan wrote:

>> I obviously hit something similar once (possibly long ago), because  
>> my
>> standard kickstart postinstall scripts check each network interface  
>> ifcfg
>> file and change the ONBOOT=y to ONBOOT=no for all but the 'primary'
>> interface.
>
> Thanks for the pointers. It's possible that this is something that was
> introduced in SL5.3. I have only resumed my kickstart development just
> recently. I was using SL5.2 previously and did not have this problem.
>
> By the way, someone sent me this privately:
>
> 	network --device eth1 --onboot no --bootproto dhcp

Have you tried adding "ksdevice=link" and/or "pci=bfsort" to the  
kernel commandline?

>
> Thanks again,
>
> Chris

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