Hey Alan,

I think the best way to go about is to add kopts for a specific distro in
the corresponding signatures.
In my opinion; adding stuff like this in code somewhere only adds a
maintenance overhead.

Unfortunately i can't confirm if ks.device works on rhel7.

Cheers!

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Alan Evangelista <ala...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
wrote:

>
> ksdevice=bootif is a kernel option which tells Anaconda to use the
> network interface used during booting for kickstart file download and Linux
> installation. bootif is automatically set in x86 systems if "IPAPPEND 2"
> kernel option is used. If this ksdevice=bootif option is not set in
> systems with multiple network cards, possibly Anaconda will choose a
> different network card and ks download will fail.
>
> Commit 020fc84a6eb3d041ea8a7db94edc948a625a00ff removed "ksdevice: bootif"
> from default kernel options in cobbler settings but did not replace it with
> equivalent kernel options generation code or kernel options in distro
> signatures. Am I missing something? Otherwise, I'll submit a patch to fix
> this.
>
> Notes:
>  - ksdevice was renamed to ks.device in Fedora 17+. Ref:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options
>  - Can anyone confirm if ks.device works in RHEL 7 in x86 systems? I
> initially thought so, but I'm not sure after reading
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045361
>
>
> Regards,
> Alan Evangelista
>
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