On 03/05/2012 11:04 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
ksdevice=link seems to work for us when reinstalling SL5 systems with SL6. But maybe that's just because we have installed all systems with pci=bfsort since the SL4 times, making device numbering consistent across kernel versions (and we use only eth0 for PXE). Using pci=[no]bfsort, it should always be possible to make the interface in use primary one. But then I'm not sure what Networkmanager or the new parallel udev device discovery may be doing... And since 6.1, some (recent Dell) servers have biosdevname enabled by default. Which makes the first onboard interface "em1", for example :-) The advantage is that this will always match the physical socket labelled "1" on the server.
ksdevice=link works for me when I'm doing an actual pxe boot. I haven't used the pci=bfsort parameter but the sorting of the names isn't the problem here. The kernel/initrd.img combo from the DVD seem to be ignoring ksdevice=link and ksdevice=<mac addr>. Regardless of sorting issues those should work if I've only got one NIC with an active link, which is true, or if I specify the mac address of the NIC I'm installing over.
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