[sles-beta] Network Interfaces change name between install and first boot

[Darren Thompson]

Tom/team

Is this a case where the "ugly but constant" port naming scheme may be more
useful than the more traditional eth(X) port names?

Darren

Darren Thompson

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On 5 September 2014 05:37, Tom Parker <tparker at cbnco.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> We are doing some RC2 testing with booting servers using /boot on
> microSD cards and / on iscsi with software initiators.
>
> We have run into problems today on our test PC that has 1 onboard nic
> and 1 PCI nic with 4 ports.  During the installation process the onboard
> nic appears as eth3 but after the first reboot it is eth0.
>
> This is obviously causing havoc with the network setup as dracut is
> setting up the wrong interface on first boot and / is not found.
>
> Should I submit an SR for this?
>
> Tom
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