Package: netcfg
Version: 1.131+deb8u1
Severity: important
I am trying to initiate a full hands off installation of Jessie on a remote server.
We use iPXE to pass boot information, and I use:
BOOTIF=${netX/mac}
to have iPXE pass the MAC of the boot interface to Jessie d-i. However netcfg refuses to parse the MAC from /proc/cmdline even though I can see it there.
Here is the output from /var/log/syslog (DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 is set) (paraphrased because I'm typing this out by hand):
~ # grep BOOTIF /var/log/syslog
kernel: [0.00000] Command line: auto=true priority=critical url="" href="http://thebooting.dev2.internal/preseed">http://thebooting.dev2.internal/preseed interface=auto DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 BOOTIF=0c:c4:7a:8e:ad:4a
kernel: [0.00000] Kernel command line: auto=true priority=critical
url="" href="http://thebooting.dev2.internal/preseed">http://thebooting.dev2.internal/preseed interface=auto
DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 BOOTIF=0c:c4:7a:8e:ad:4a