Dag Wieers wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Jay Turner wrote:
Anyway, I would like to take this opportunity to offer a side trip with
this thread. What do people need/want in RHEL6?
1. I would love to have Anaconda be more verbose about why it failed to
download a kickstart file. And even provide information wrt. all its
interfaces, links, mac addresses, pci-slot and driver name.
How hard is it to tell us whether the interface had no link, it could
not find its gateway, or the webserver, or there was a HTTP error.
At several large companies with a layered network and complex VLANs,
where PC hardware always is slightly different, it is hell to know for
sure which interface is the one needed to download the kickstart file
and you need a reboot (BIOSes are still fairly slow) to test another
one. Most of these systems have 6 to 8 NICs and the problem could be
patching or switch configuration related. Anaconda happily tries to
download kickstart files from interfaces that have no link. The
asknetwork option does give you the NIC vendor, but not which one have a
link and no MAC address or PCI slot information. And you cannot go back
when you have selected the wrong interface.
If using PXE, then
ksdevice=link
So the burden is on the people that need to load these systems (usually
operations or room-management) and falls back on someone being able to
troubleshoot on a case-by-case basis.
Booting a RHEL rescue to find the order of the NICs is useless because
it lacks ethtool and mii-tool. Booting another recovery disc causes the
driver order to be different anyway. So we have to write down
mac-addresses and type them at the boot-prompt. The workflow simply sucks.
And no, PXE/DHCP is not allowed in some environments. I wish it were.
Even if you take it off the network and have one just for the lab?
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John
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