Ethernet probe order

Wed Nov 16 19:20:57 UTC 2005

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Craig Nottingham wrote:

>
> Any advise on how to handle the weird probe order voodoo in the
> following setup...
>
> I am having issues with servers that come wit 2 onboard e1000 ports and
> and additional e1000 pci expansion card.  At boot the first onboard
> e1000 is eth0, after grabbing my kernel and initrd the pci expansion
> card is now eth0.

Should be possible to hack the initrd to force the loading of the modules
in initrd in the order you need them.  Else, by specifying HWADDR
in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and tying eth0, eth1, eth2
to specific MAC addresses, you can force it that way too.

Steve

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ronald Reed
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 10:01 AM
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Re: Ethernet probe order
>
> I may have forgot to mention that if you are using the device parameter
> in the kickstart file, then you should probably use the "noprobe" option
> on the boot line.
>
> Ron
>
> On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 13:08, Phil Oester wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 07:11:57PM -0700, Greg Morgan wrote:
>>> So do you want, say,
>>> device eth e1000:tg3:e100
>>> so that the devices are probed in this order?
>>
>> Thanks, that worked when combined with the 'nonet' boot argument
> (apparently
>> auto-probing devices is done prior to those manually specified).
>>
>> Still doesn't explain the logic, but gets the job done...
>>
>> Phil
>>
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