Bug 58105
Summary: | kickstart --device option fails for eth1 specification | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | James McDermott <jmcdermo> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.1 | CC: | mbolling |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2002-01-15 21:43:23 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
James McDermott
2002-01-08 17:54:01 UTC
I've done some testing with this today and it appears that 7.1 does not allow kickstarting through devices other than eth0, although the documentation says that this should be possible. I've tested the same kickstart file with 7.2, and 7.2 does it correctly. Is it possible to use 7.2? Unfortunatley this is for installation on the production line and they are currently installing 7.1 on all these machines. So they need a fix for 7.1. What would be considered an acceptable fix? Do they want an errata or just a new boot disk? Can you try booting with 'linux ks=floppy ksdevice=eth1' and see if that works? They are currently just looking for a fix for production. Errata boot disks would be great, I already had them try the ksdevice=eth1 and they said they had no success. I thought it would be a fine workaround. Still defaulted to eth0 though. Hmm...that seems to work for me. What kind of ethernet cards do they have? If the drivers that eth1 needs aren't on the bootnet.img disk, then I can see how that would cause a problem. The drivers seem to be on the box, but it might be useful to note that both cards use the same driver. They retried the ksdevice=eth1 and this gave them an address, however instead of reading from the kickstart disk it entered interactive mode. Did this happen to you to? ok we have the ksdevice option working from the start up screen, it would be really helpful if we could get it going in the file though. They can just modify the syslinux.cfg on the boot disk for 7.1. And since Brent says it works even without ksdevice for 7.2, I'm going to go ahead and close this |