[Spacewalk-list] Problem installing RHEL5 on Dell M620

[Frank Paulick]

Hi Patrick,

the device was good.
as far as i can see, for rhel5 the network in the kickstart file 
requires the device defined.
with --device=eth0 the system installed and had network running after 
installation.

regarding 'Consistent Network Device Naming' ,this seems to have been 
introduced with RHEL6.1
the really strange thing about this was that without the device defined 
in the network part of the kickstart file
i needed to specify the interfaces for cobbler as em*
with eth* as interface names it didn't even was able to download the 
kickstart file during installation.

regards
Frank



On 07/09/2014 11:29 AM, Patrick Laimbock wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> On 09-07-14 11:00, Frank Paulick wrote:
>> i added the system with "--interface=em1" to cobbler and the
>> installation went fine.
>> But, in the installed system the network interface once again is eth0.
> Did you try adding 'network --device=em1 ...' in your kickstart file?
>
>> Why do i have to add the system to cobbler using em interfaces instead
>> of the eth interfaces which are normaly used in RHEL 5 ?
> The feature is called 'Consistent Network Device Naming' and you can
> read more about it here:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming
>
> If you don't want any of the interface name changes then you can boot
> with biosdevname=0 and use the old ethX interface names. Optionally
> don't install the biosdevname package.
>
> If you want to change an already installed system back to using ethX
> then I guess you'll have to boot it with biosdevname=0 then delete
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and fix the filenames in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ (mv ifcfg-emX ifcfg-ethX) and fix the
> DEVICE="emX" entry in those ifcfg-emX files. Never tried it so YMMV.
>
> HTH,
> Patrick
>
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