Bug 492586

Summary: cmdline mode prompts during loader for NIC selection
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: James Laska <jlaska>
Component: anacondaAssignee: David Cantrell <dcantrell>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description James Laska 2009-03-27 15:14:24 UTC 
Created attachment 337023 [details]
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Description of problem:

Doing a cmdline mode kickstart install stops and prompts for the NIC to use in loader.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

anaconda-11.5.0.38


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Initiate cmdline mode kickstart install on a system with *multiple* NICs
  
Actual results:

Loader prompts for which NIC to use.

Expected results:

cmdline mode should never prompt, we should emit a failure message and the user must supply the require NIC information via cmdline or kickstart.

Additional info:

See screenshot
Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2009-03-27 17:19:16 UTC 
David - it looks like all we really need here is something like:

if (FL_CMDLINE(flags)) {
    fprinft(stderr, "No way to determine which NIC to use, and cannot ask in cmdline mode.  Halting.");
    exit(1);
}

in net.c:chooseNetworkInterface, right before the startNewt().  Does that sound about right?
Comment 2 David Cantrell 2009-03-27 20:47:13 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> David - it looks like all we really need here is something like:
> 
> if (FL_CMDLINE(flags)) {
>     fprinft(stderr, "No way to determine which NIC to use, and cannot ask in
> cmdline mode.  Halting.");
>     exit(1);
> }
> 
> in net.c:chooseNetworkInterface, right before the startNewt().  Does that sound
> about right?  

Yeah, that's exactly what we need.  Will be in anaconda-11.5.0.39-1 and later.