[CentOS] CentOS 5.3 Anaconda nic device ordering

Mark Watts

m.watts at eris.qinetiq.com
Fri Aug 21 14:49:17 UTC 2009


I have a bunch of HP BL465c G5 blades, with additional dual-port network
adapters. The onboard interfaces use the bnx2 driver, while the
expansion card uses tg3.

All 4 interfaces are detected by both Anaconda and the installed system,
but Anaconda is reversing the ordering:

Anaconda:
	eth0 Card 2, Port 1
	eth1 Card 2, Port 2
	eth2 Card 1, Port 1
	eth3 Card 1, Port 2

BIOS and Installed Kernel:
	eth0 Card 1, Port 1
	eth1 Card 1, Port 2
	eth2 Card 2, Port 1
	eth3 Card 2, Port 2

The main problem I have is that the ifcfg-eth* files have the wrong
HWADDR lines in them for the actual network cards. dmesg shows the
interfaces in the correct order.

I've tried, unsuccessfully to use the "device eth bnx2:tg3" syntax
within my kickstart file, as suggested here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/NetworkIssues#Mixed_NIC_Cards_and_Drivers

If I just use the device line in my kickstart, this doesn't appear to
have any effect on the device ordering at all, and using "noprobe nonet"
just stops anything from being detected at all.


Is there any way to get anaconda to load the drivers in a different
order on CentOS 5.3?

Mark.

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