Re: Anaconda static network setup in RHEL6

Hi,

Could you please share, how you are booting installer.
for eg. by pxe,
Can you also provide which firmware your system have (UEFI or BIOS?)


On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Lukas Zapletal <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to boot RHEL 6.x Anaconda on a system with multiple NICs. I
> don't know how they will be initialized, therefore I have no idea what
> ends up with eth0 and eth1 etc. But I know MAC address of the card I
> want to provision with (download the kickstart) and I have IPv4
> credentials.
>
> Now, the documentation is a little bit fuzzy here. I was digging in the
> Anaconda codebase. But no luck:
>
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-
> US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/ap-a
> dmin-options.html#sn-boot-options-network
>
> Anaconda never configures me the proper device and always keep asking
> to do manual network configuration. What is the trick here?
>
> These are the variations I tried:
>
> ks=http://myhost/my_kickstart.ks kssendmac ip=192.168.100.68
> netmask=255.255.255.0
> gateway=192.168.100.1 dns=192.168.100.1 ksdevice=52:54:00:11:86:41
>
> ks=http://myhost/my_kickstart.ks kssendmac ip=192.168.100.68
> netmask=255.255.255.0
> gateway=192.168.100.1 dns=192.168.100.1 ifname=pr0:52:54:00:11:86:41
> ksdevice=pr0
>
> ks=http://myhost/my_kickstart.ks kssendmac ip=192.168.100.68
> netmask=255.255.255.0
> gateway=192.168.100.1 dns=192.168.100.1 ifname=pr0:52:54:00:11:86:41
>
> ks=http://myhost/my_kickstart.ks kssendmac ip=192.168.100.68
> netmask=255.255.255.0
> gateway=192.168.100.1 dns=192.168.100.1 BOOTIF=00-52-54-00-11-86-41
>
> I am also interested in doing the same on RHEL7 and no luck either!
> Tried combinations like:
>
> ... ip=192.168.100.68::192.168.100.1:255.255.255.0:::none BOOTIF=00-52-54-
> 00-11-86-41
> ... ip=192.168.100.68::192.168.100.1:255.255.255.0::52:54:00:11:86:41:none
>
> In this case it's even worse, getting "System halted" dracut errors and
> it does not make it into Anaconda.
>
> Thanks for help!
>
> -- lz
>
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