Carsten Aulbert wrote: > Hi Auke, > > Kok, Auke wrote: >> if you have udev installed and running you can just edit: >> >> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules >> >> to rename the devices persistently. No ugly firmware hacks needed. > > That's too far down the road as the kernel needs to make the inquieries > already and udev is not installed at that point (we are doing a 'FAI' > installation and the kernel gets fed something which looks like: > > kernel kernel/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-faiinstall > append root=/dev/nfs > nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot,v3,tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 > ip=:::::eth0:dhcp FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,reboot > FAI_ACTION=install console=tty0 > > > as you can see there is nfsroot involved which in turn needs dhcp and > this needs... a correct interface to work with :( > > Any other ideas?
what's in a name? is it really that bad that your device has a name that is less-than logical? *shrug* with an initrd you can have udev run from a minimal initrd doing the renaming and mount the filesystem, or just use `ifrename` from said initrd. maybe that works? if you really have to resolve to reordering the probing, you're solving the wrong problem IMHO, and creating a non-portable solution. Auke ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
