network interfaces exchanged

[Rudy Gevaert]

Thomas Lange wrote:
>>>>>>On Fri, 19 May 2006 10:49:11 +0200 (MEST), Andreas Sindermann <sinder at thp.Uni-Koeln.DE> said:
> 
> 
>     > Hi,
>     > during the fai-installation the nfsroot-kernel sees the two network
>     > interfaces eth0 and eth1 in a different order than the kernel used
>     > during normal operation. The effect is that when booting from harddisk
>     > no network is available. How does one care about this usually?
> This is a known issue. I'm not sure if there's a proper fix. If you
> have different types of NIC you can add eth1 to the ip parameter
> in pxelinux.cfg. Read nfsroot.txt in the kernel source for more information
> or have a look at /etc/fai/menu.lst where we use this parameter
> 
> ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf>
> 

If you want I can provide a little patch that lets you give the -1 
option to boot the installation over th1


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Rudy Gevaert          Rudy.Gevaert at UGent.be          tel:+32 9 264 4734
Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur  Direction ICT, Infrastructure dept.
Groep Systemen                     Systems group
Universiteit Gent                  Ghent University
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