Hey Guys, I just ran into this issue as well, but I don't think its a preseed issue. Instead it seems like an unavoidable misordering of operations. In order to get the preseed file, the installer needs to have an ip address, which it does not have right out of the gate, even though one is required in order to pxe boot in the first place. If you look at the order in which the installer runs things, it does network configuration a few steps before actually fetching the preseed file. I'm not sure what to do about that, just offering my observations.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of orchestra, which is subscribed to orchestra in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/855921 Title: does not honor netcfg/choose_interface in preseed Status in “netcfg” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “orchestra” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “netcfg” source package in Maverick: Confirmed Status in “orchestra” source package in Maverick: Won't Fix Status in “netcfg” source package in Natty: Confirmed Status in “orchestra” source package in Natty: Won't Fix Status in “netcfg” source package in Oneiric: Confirmed Status in “orchestra” source package in Oneiric: Fix Released Bug description: if you pxeboot an image and hand it a preseed file, and in that preseed file you have: d-i netcfg/choose_interface select eth0 it doesn't work and it pops up a menu and asks you what interface you want as your default interface. If, however, you pass netcfg/choose_interface=eth0 to the kernel as a boot option - it works as expected and does not display a menu option for this value. In a room full of headless machines being booted by cobbler, displaying menus is bad, as is not having those machines be able to find dhcp. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcfg/+bug/855921/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~orchestra Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~orchestra More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
