WAVV requirement WRIBDB09 submitted to display MACs in canonical form.
On 10/22/09 7:44 PM, "Mark Post" <mp...@novell.com> wrote: > I just learned something unfortunate about installing SLES10 SP3 using Layer 2 > network interfaces on z/VM. > > For people like me that want to have a complete parmfile so they're not being > prompted for all the network information every time an install is done, this > might bite you. When you specify the NICs MAC via the OSAHWaddr parameter, it > might be tempting to do something like a "q nic VDEVNO" and cut and paste the > MAC address from that into the parmfile. It will work in that you won't get > prompted for it during the network setup part, but it will cause the installer > to write out malformed configuration files for the interface, and when the > system reboots for the second phase of the install, your network won't come > up. The key appears to be that z/VM displays the MAC as > 02-00-00-00-00-20 > and Linux expects it to be > 02:00:00:00:00:20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
