Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote:
> On 03/06/2012 06:00 AM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor)
>> <[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>>> On 03/05/2012 11:04 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
>>>> ksdevice=link seems to work for us when reinstalling SL5 systems 
>>>> with SL6.
>>>> But maybe that's just because we have installed all systems with 
>>>> pci=bfsort
>>>> since the SL4 times, making device numbering consistent across kernel
>>>> versions (and we use only eth0 for PXE). Using pci=[no]bfsort, it 
>>>> should
>>>> always be possible to make the interface in use primary one. But 
>>>> then I'm
>>>> not sure what Networkmanager or the new parallel udev device 
>>>> discovery may
>>>> be doing... And since 6.1, some (recent Dell) servers have biosdevname
>>>> enabled by default. Which makes the first onboard interface "em1", for
>>>> example :-) The advantage is that this will always match the 
>>>> physical socket
>>>> labelled "1" on the server.
>>> ksdevice=link works for me when I'm doing an actual pxe boot.  I 
>>> haven't
>>> used the pci=bfsort parameter but the sorting of the names isn't the 
>>> problem
>>> here.  The kernel/initrd.img combo from the DVD seem to be ignoring
>>> ksdevice=link and ksdevice=<mac addr>.  Regardless of sorting issues 
>>> those
>>> should work if I've only got one NIC with an active link, which is 
>>> true, or
>>> if I specify the mac address of the NIC I'm installing over.
>> What happens if you use a regular DVD, tab out of the menu, and add
>> your "ks=..." and "ksdevice=..." values to the kernel line?
>>
> Don't have a DVD drive on that system.  I built a USB stick from the 
> install DVD that's boots correctly.  Tried out Tom's suggestion on a 
> different system with only one NIC and everything proceeded as expected.
>
> Tried on the problem system and again it worked just like I want it 
> to.  But when using the vmlinuz/initrd.img combo from the install dvd 
> manually entered into /boot/grub/grub.conf it ignores the ksdevice 
> parameter.  The system boots to the installer but gets stuck awaiting 
> a selection of which NIC to use.  Selecting the active NIC and 
> everything proceeds normally.

What install DVD are you grabbing the image from?  There was a bug in 
6.0 and 6.1 involving the network interfaces during installation.  A new 
6.1 iso was issued and the fix was in place for the initial 6.2 
release.  Make sure you are at least using the corrected 6.1 image.

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Mr. Mark V. Stodola
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