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Re: kickstarting from eth0 ethernet card
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Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]>
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Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:27:02 +0100
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Hi

Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm kickstarting some proliant dl360's, and as their got 2 embedded nics, each
> time they kickstart the process asks which ethernet card to kickstart from,
> eth0 or eth1.
> 
> In my kickstart file I define:
> 
> network --device eth0
> 
> and have tried this both with the "--bootproto dhcp" line and with assigning
> IP address lines, both methods ask which ethernet card to use.
> 
> I'm kickstarting SL42 machines.
> 
> Does anyone know how I tell kickstart to always use eth0?

Try adding ksdevice=XXX to your bootup kernel command line, ie:

linux ks ksdevice=eth0

(or ksdevice=link if only one of NICs is cabled)

Cheers

Jarek

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