[CentOS] Kickstart with multiple eth devices

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

6.6-x86_64 ...

Keep in mind this is happening during the kickstart process. What I'm
seeing is this:

When the system first comes on, PXE kicks in and port 2 (or eth1) gets an
IP from the network's dhcp and is configured properly. PXE grabs the
necessary files to start installation. However, as soon as it the install
image is uncompressed it does a rename on the devices and what should be
eth3 is now configured as either eth0 or eth1 (I forgot which one) and what
*should* be eth1 is effectively no longer configured. At that point
kickstart stops because it can no longer fetch the kickstart file. I have
to physically remove the additional ethernet card for it to work properly.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/23/2015 05:34 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>
>> I have a Dell server that has two built-in ethernet devices. When I
>> kickstart the machine, they are correctly identified as eth0 and eth1
>> (correctly meaning they correspond to the physical device ports 1 and 2).
>> I
>> need a third one and want that to come up as eth2. After adding the
>> hardware, kickstart now fails because for some reason it goes through a
>> rename process where it makes the newly added card eth1 (or eth0, I
>> forgot). Is there a way to stop this rename process so kickstart correctly
>> uses the physical hardware the way they are, meaning physical port 1 =
>> eth0, port 2 = eth1, and the additional ethernet card then becomes eth2?
>>
>
> What version of CentOS are you trying to install?  I would expect that a
> recent version would use the biosdevname interface naming scheme on a
> Dell server.
>
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_
> Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Networking_Guide/sec-Consistent_Network_Device_
> Naming_Using_biosdevname.html
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