ifcfg files generated in initramfs don't work with NM run after switchroot in anaconda (the issue should concern also NM-only (no network service running) installed systems I think). These are important differences I found, in ifcfgs generated by dracut: - ONBOOT=no for slaves I think NM requires ONBOOT=yes, there is a comment in dracut's write-ifcfg.sh saying that "Set ONBOOT=no to prevent initscripts from trying to setup already bonded physical interface". I don't know if this still applies for initscripts. - BONDING_MASTER missing This should be easy to fix. Perhaps TYPE=Bond would achieve the same. - HWADDRESS of slaves doesn't contain permanent MAC address (it is read from /sys/class/net/<eth0>/address), but this doesn't seem to be a problem for NM (they contain DEVICE=eth0 on the other hand). I am cc'ing notting and dcbw for clarifications.
initscripts will bring up configured slaves regardless of ONBOOT status - ONBOOT is only checked for the master device. Having ONBOOT=yes should not hurt these days, I do believe we've fixed any double-initialization cases. BONDING_MASTER isn't needed for initscripts; that is correct. HWADDR for initscripts needs to match the permanent address, not the address you get after bonding.
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