Glad I nudged you in a helpful direction. I did not pay attention to the mention of Ubuntu. I zeroed in on "eth0" and "kickstart" and shared the answer that I use on Red Hat systems.
But the common answer is to set a kernel option, so there you go. Enjoy On Dec 5, 2012, at 5:08 PM, Asher Newcomer wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Thanks for responding. I think that your kernel option is similar to > 'netcfg/choose_interface', and in any case on my system was set to > ksdevice: bootif > > That was actually a nice pointer, because the solution seems to be setting > kernel option BOOTIF=<mac> and leaving netcfg/choose_interface=auto, rather > than assigning it as I had been. So far, that seems to be working with the > few permutations I've tested. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=615600 > > Thanks, > > Asher > > > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Dan White <y...@comcast.net> wrote: > In /etc/cobbler/settings: > > kernel_options: > ksdevice: eth0 > > or whichever one you want to use. > > “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in > the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” > Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Asher Newcomer" <asher...@gmail.com> > To: "cobbler mailing list" <cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org> > Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 9:51:16 AM > Subject: [cobbler] Setting PXE interface to eth0 > > > Hi All, > > > I have a machine with multiple nics, and the nic that is being used to boot > from pxe ends up getting set as eth2 by Ubuntu 12.04 after install. > > > This causes some problems for mac address mappings and some other assumptions > I've made. Is there a simple way to set the pxe interface to eth0 by default? > I'm unfortunately using preseed files instead of kickstarts to drive the > installer, but I suppose I could look to change that. > > > Thanks! > > > Asher > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
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