On 2019-09-16 13:07, James B. Byrne via CentOS wrote: > I need to work on a host which has been offline and powered down for > some time. I has CentOS-6.9 installed. At some point it had two > nics, one on the motherboard (still present and working) and one as an > expansion card. > > When booted the console displays: > > pciehp 0000:00:1c:0:pcie04: Failed to check link status > > repeatedly. > > How do I tell the host to ignore the missing nic or remove it from the > system configuration so that the error is removed. > You can just rename or better move into different location configuration file resembling missing NIC; look into: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts Thanks. Valeri > > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++