udev in chroot

[Rudy Gevaert]

Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> There have been some posts/bugs about udev in chroot on several mailing 
> lists.  Most relevant one:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=395889
> 
> We are heavily using Dell equipment here, and as some of you know the 
> 9th generation of Dell servers switch the network interfaces in the OS.
> 
> Matt Domsch has written a tool that can query the bios for the correct 
> naming of the device.  I have made Debian packages for this tool (
> http://users.ugent.be/~rgevaert/bios-dev-name/)
> 
> The package works(tm):  I install it on a running system and remove the 
> rules.d/z25-persistent-net-rules link.  Reboot and eth0 is the correct 
> eth0.  eth1 is the correct eth1.
> 
> Now the problem:
> 
> I'm installing that package in my FAI nfsroot.  It gets set up correctly:
> 
> wopr:/srv/fai/nfsroot/etc/udev/rules.d# ls -1
> 020_permissions.rules
> 30_bios_dev_name.rules
> udev.rules
> z20_persistent-input.rules
> z20_persistent.rules
> z45_persistent-net-generator.rules
> z50_run.rules
> z55_hotplug.rules
> z60_hdparm.rules
> z75_cd-aliases-generator.rules
> 
> My udev rule:
> wopr:/srv/fai/nfsroot/etc/udev/rules.d# cat 30_bios_dev_name.rules
> # Rename the interfaces according to the order in the bios.
> 
> KERNEL=="eth*", ACTION=="add", PROGRAM="/usr/sbin/bios_dev_name -i %k", 
> NAME="%c"
> 
> 
>   But when I boot for the installation the interfaces get named the 
> wrong way.  As you can see above I have no 
> rules.d/z25-persistent-net-rules link in the chroot.
> 
> I'm booting with my own 2.6.16.20 kernel.

Replacing with a higher kernel solved it.  2.6.21 e.g.

Sorry for the noise :)



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