I do not know why but I do minimal installs eth0 is always set NOT to be enabled on boot. If you edit the eth0 config script it will be fine.
Robin. Sent from samsung mobile. On O2. ~Stack~ <[email protected]> wrote: Hello everyone, I have run into a problem with 6.4 that I can reproduce in my environment that has had me stumped for a few hours. I found nothing that appeared to directly relate to my problem when searching the list/net. Maybe I have been staring at it too long or maybe its because it is well past midnight, but I am confused and maybe someone else can help. :-D The problem: Servers don't get a DHCP IP after booting up. The background: I have a small test environment and I am working on building something from "the base up". I want as small of a start install as I can get. I PXE booted 4 servers with the following package selection of tools I know I am going to need: %packages --nobase @Core acpid dbus openssh-clients %end In the post section I have a script that configures a repo for other software, but the only thing that is actually installed is puppet+dependencies. There are ~230 packages installed when it boots the first time. I have done nothing special with the network configuration. It is just DHCP. They get a DHCP IP for the PXE boot, then again during install, however, when they boot up there is no request made to the server that I can see. If I manually log in on the box and run 'ifup eth0' it pulls a DCHP IP within seconds and all is well...until the next boot up when it requires a manual start of the network again. I manually have to run `ifup eth0` on every box on a fresh boot! In my experimentation, I installed from a CD using the
