Ok. I see your issue. The way I have been getting around this is to add a kickstart option: ksdevice="mac address of install nic" and or by specifying the kernel parameter: pci=nobfort, which will disable the old 2.4 NIC enumeration algorithm which is used in 2.6.9-55 or newer kernels and use the 2.6 nic enumeration algorithm.
Check redhat knowledge base faq: http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_46_10460.shtm for more info. Dell has also produce a white paper on the NIC enumeration issue: http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/nic-enum-whitepaper-v3.pdf --joe Joseph Boyer Jr Enterprise Technology Services Liquidnet Holdings, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] T +1 646.660.8352 C +1 646.284.8394 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jasper Capel Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:50 PM To: cobbler mailing list Subject: Re: Static networking -- nameserver configuration and hostnames Joseph Boyer Jr. wrote: > Jasper, > > I would tend to think that the intent of having a host name parameter part of > the NIC configuration is to address the needs of multi-homed machines. At > least that is what I use them for. In my environment most systems have a > public and private interface and I use the hostname associated with each NIC > configuration to properly set up /etc/hosts via configuration RPM. I use the > system name as the "Node name", that is the name you see when you log into > the box or grep HOSTNAME /etc/sysconfig/network. > I'm currently doing this as well, but I think we should aim at configuring the system's hostname from cobbler (and we easily could, with the post_install_network_config snippet). Maybe designating one interface as primary and using the hostname from this interface would be a nicer alternative than letting anaconda just "pick one"? Jasper _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
