Bug 1044623

Summary:	dracut always uses BOOTIF if defined.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Bill Peck <bpeck>
Component:	dracut	Assignee:	dracut-maint
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team>
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Version:	7.0	CC:	dracut-maint-list, harald, jburke, jstodola, lkardos, ncoghlan, pbunyan, rmetrich
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Fixed In Version:	dracut-033-84	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2014-06-13 10:06:38 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Bill Peck 2013-12-18 17:17:56 UTC

Description of problem:

dracut always uses BOOTIF if present on the command line.  The real problem is that pxe configs need ipappend 2 in order for pxelinux.0 to send BOOTIF=<MAC>.  But there is no way to edit this when booting a system from the pxe menu.  In the past if we had ksevice=bootif on the append line and needed to change it we could simply edit the append line to ksdevice=<MAC> or remove it entirely (while at the systems console).

Now the only way to change this is to go back to the tftpboot server and edit the text file.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dracut-033-40.el7

How reproducible:
everytime

Expected results:
some way to disable/change BOOTIF without having to remove ipappend 2 from the pxe config file.

Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2013-12-19 10:48:53 UTC

(In reply to Bill Peck from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> dracut always uses BOOTIF if present on the command line.  The real problem
> is that pxe configs need ipappend 2 in order for pxelinux.0 to send
> BOOTIF=<MAC>.  But there is no way to edit this when booting a system from
> the pxe menu.  In the past if we had ksevice=bootif on the append line and
> needed to change it we could simply edit the append line to ksdevice=<MAC>
> or remove it entirely (while at the systems console).
> 
> Now the only way to change this is to go back to the tftpboot server and
> edit the text file.
> 
> 
> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> dracut-033-40.el7
> 
> How reproducible:
> everytime
> 
> Expected results:
> some way to disable/change BOOTIF without having to remove ipappend 2 from
> the pxe config file.

like rd.bootif=0 ?

Hmm, thinking about it. Does appending "BOOTIF=" at the end work?

Comment 4 Bill Peck 2013-12-19 11:46:48 UTC

we tried adding the other nic's mac address to BOOTIF= but that didn't seem to work.  I can do it again and report the order that the entries end up in command line.

Comment 6 Harald Hoyer 2014-01-17 16:33:30 UTC

dracut-033-84

Comment 8 Ľuboš Kardoš 2014-01-30 07:43:10 UTC

Verified on RHEL-7.0-20140127.0. When I add rd.bootif=0 all network interfaces are activated not only BOOTIF interfaces.

Comment 9 Ľuboš Kardoš 2014-01-30 07:55:57 UTC

Verified on dracut-033-85.

Comment 10 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 10:06:38 UTC

This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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