Hi Michael,

>> On our system we have eth0 and eth1 ; however, the ipmi 'shares' the eth0 
>> port.
>>
>> In reality, bringing up eth0 destroys the ipmi functionality. As you might 
>> understand , this interferes sometimes with my FAI usage.
> [...]
>> now downloading the latest and greatest version from "deb 
>> http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download lenny koeln" , maybe i can 
>> find something in there.
>
> grab grml's live-initramfs from that repository and put "ethdevice=eth1" on 
> your kernel command line as described here:
> http://grml.supersized.org/archives/337-More-robust-network-booting.html
>

thanks you for pointing me there.

Funny enough i found that parameter also with live-initramfs - it just get so 
ignored afterwards; I'll hook in a screenshot, hoping this list allows that.

the kernel line goes like this:

label install-ipmi
kernel vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64
append initrd=initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 live-netdev=eth1 ethdevice=eth1  
ip=dhcp  serial console=ttyS1,19200n8 root=/dev/nfs 
nfsroot=/attic/PXEBOOT/nfsroot boot=live  FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt 
FAI_ACTION=install


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However since this system needed to be in production, i got to talk someone 
trough the remote install by phone, enabling me to carry on working. Meaning i 
don't have a spare box now to try grlm on. 

Well, when a new box comes along i will give grml an spin!

Thank you again for pointing out grlm, regards,


  Vincent



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