eth1 only

[Michael Tautschnig]

> Hi Michael,
> 
> >> On our system we have eth0 and eth1 ; however, the ipmi 'shares' the eth0 port.
> >>
> >> In reality, bringing up eth0 destroys the ipmi functionality. As you might understand , this interferes sometimes with my FAI usage.
> > [...]
> >> now downloading the latest and greatest version from "deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download lenny koeln" , maybe i can find something in there.
> >
> > grab grml's live-initramfs from that repository and put "ethdevice=eth1" on your kernel command line as described here:
> > http://grml.supersized.org/archives/337-More-robust-network-booting.html
> >
> 
> thanks you for pointing me there.
> 
> Funny enough i found that parameter also with live-initramfs - it just get so ignored afterwards; I'll hook in a screenshot, hoping this list allows that.
> 

[...]

I think this is just broken in live-initramfs, at least partly reported in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514916 which also includes
patches.

Best,
Michael

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