FWIW: I have observed that distros are relying more on Consistent
Network Device Naming rather than traditional "ethX" naming, and this
causes a number of installation problems, particularly in the use of
ksdevice= (RH) and netdevice= (Suse) on the kernel cmdline. I have not
had time to experiment much with installnic and primarynic, which is
certainly the better way to handle it; so far I've been hacking my
pxeboot cfg files as a workaround. :- (
I've seen also that installers are inconsistent in their application of
CNDN; it seems to be a "work in progress" in anaconda & autoyast. For
example, several versions of SLES12 beta were inconsistent in their
behavior on the same HW; sometimes it used CNDN and other times ethX.
A separate but related problem is similar inconsistency in NIC naming in
kickstart & autoyast files. The generated files can fail if they
contain hard-coded names that are different from what the installer is
using "this time" -- even if the installed that *generated* the file was
successful.
Dave H.
On 07/10/2014 08:41 AM, Jarrod B Johnson wrote:
What happens if you leave installnic and primarynic blank? xCAT
should autodetect in that case. There's a high chance that 'eth0' is
not what you think it is and the autodetection should overcome it.
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multiple NICS. the nodes are receiving an
From: Hellen Nyatsambo <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: 07/10/2014 07:26 AM
Subject: [xcat-user] ksdevice problem
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Hello
I'm provsioning nodes with multiple NICS. the nodes are receiving an
image, after hardware initialise they fail with error "No way to
determine which NIC to use, and cannot prompt in cmdline mode.
Halting. Please use the ksdevice= parameter to specify the device
name (e.g., eth0) or the MAC address of the NIC to use for installation."
Installnic is set to eth0 in the noderes table.
tabdump noderes
#node,servicenode,netboot,tftpserver,tftpdir,nfsserver,monserver,nfsdir,installnic,primarynic,discoverynics,cmdinterface,xcatmaster,current_osimage,next_osimage,nimserver,routenames,nameservers,proxydhcp,comments,disable
"compute",,"pxe","172.20.100.1",,"172.20.100.1",,,"eth0","eth0",,,"172.20.100.1",,,,,,,,
Where else do i need configure ksdevice. I've tried placing "ksdevice
eth0" in compute.tmpl and that didnt work.
Thanks
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