Am 27.02.2011 21:22, schrieb Joey Hess:
Thomas Mieslinger wrote:BOOTIF=01-1C-C1-DE-EB-AB-9E BOOT_DEBUG=2 DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 fb=falseBOOTIF is a pxelinux boot parameter. It is supported by the Debian initramfs when pxe booting, but it is not supported by the Debian installer.
Understood. While googling, I found http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504753. This does a half hearted job by setting automatically netcfg/choose_interface.
Perhaps it should be. In the meantime, you can use the documented preseeding interface of booting with interface=eth1. I don't think netcfg allows specifying a interface by MAC though.
In my reality there are lots of boxes (>5k) with lots of different configurations of onboard and addin cards.
To get my job done all those 5000 Machines must comply to some very very basic guidelines. After the installation, the inner interface is always eth0 if there is a public interface, it is eth1. If there are crosslinks they are eth1 and onward.
I need a simple and powerful mechanism to enforce this against the quirks of udev and bioses.
reagards Thomas