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I'm kickstarting a couple of headless servers, and I would like to preconfigure networking for OpenStack/libvirt/KVM. This implies support for bridging. Patching this ex-post through e.g. Puppet is a bit risky.

How reproducible:

1. Add any "bridge" option to a PXE boot.
2. Observe a "dracut: FATAL: No 'brctl' installed" and "dracut: Refusing to continue" failure.

The whole set of options I would like to use, in the end, is this:

ip=XYZ::ZYX:27:HOSTNAME:br0:none:9100 nameserver=NS bond=bond-te:enp3s0f0,enp3s0f1:mode=802.3ad,xmit_hash_policy=layer3+4 vlan=vlan121:bond-te bridge=br0:vlan121

That is:

- two eth interfaces with LACP bonding
- VLAN 121 over the bond-te
- this VLAN to be added as the only if to a bridge, which will be later on used by VMs

Please note that this is only about dracut's networking setup. A complementary solution would be to describe this setup over Anaconda's options in my kickstart file.

The install initramfs is composed by lorax and should probably be extended to include "brctl", which means bridge-utils have to be installed.

Verified on RHEL-7.2 Beta. Installation initrd.img contains usr/sbin/brctl

# lsinitrd initrd.img | grep brctl
cat: write error: Broken pipe
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        32896 Aug 20 11:15 usr/sbin/brctl

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2015-2289.html