Re: Anaconda static network setup in RHEL6

Radek Vykydal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.anaconda.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 08/21/2015 04:47 PM, Lukas Zapletal 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

Hm, this one should work on RHEL6.

Is there any network configuration in your kickstart?
Can you post /tmp/anaconda.log and /tmp/syslog from installer environment?

Radek
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