PCI Devices ( NIC ) Enumerated on RHEL5 ( latest )

[Larry Brigman]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:35 AM, James Cammarata<jimi at sngx.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:56:32 -0400, Harry Hoffman
> <hhoffman at ip-solutions.net> wrote:
>> Hi LG,
>>
>> You might be able to setup the ethernet devices via a bootparam.
>>
>> Check out the man page for bootparam and search for Ethernet Devices
>> "man 7 bootparam"
>>
>> HTH,
>> Harry
>>
>> Linux Geek wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am trying to install RHEL5.3 on a system with multiple Network
>>> interfaces. While installation the network device names are not read in
>>> correct/expected order. I set the ksdevice as eth0 ( using ksdevice=eth0
>
>>> at boot prompt ) however the installer tries to acquire IP for eth2
>>> device. I have tried using "pci=bfsort" with now luck which I believe is
>
>>> due its applicability on few systems.
>>>
>>> Disabling devices in BIOS din't help either.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to get this wroking ?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>
> By default, cobbler uses ksdevice=bootif, and uses the extra parameter
> "IPAPPEND 2" in the pxelinux file (you must do this or it won't work).
> What this does is it tells Anaconda to use the ethernet device that was
> used to PXE boot.  You must also be using a syslinux package of a certain
> version but with RHEL5.3 that shouldn't be a concern (on RHEL4 it can be).
>

I also found this a while back. It worked for me.

It is interesting that none of this is documented in the kickstart
documentation.
options.