 | | | Ethernet Probe Order | Ethernet Probe Order 2006-01-06 - By Jussi Silvennoinen
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> We have over 500 servers from a certain vendor that uses mainstream Tyan
> 2881 motherboards. The onboard ports change order (eth0, eth1)
> depending on if you load RHEL 3 i386 or x86_64. What a pain in the
> butt! We got around this with hardware profiles in our make_bootdisk
> perl CGI (http://kickstart-tools.sf.net). If someone selects that
> vendor's system for installation, we alter the ksdevice line in
> syslinux.cfg depending on if they choose a i386 or x86_64-based
> distribution for installation.
I "fixed" the same issue with our FSC blades with pci=nosort boot
parameter, doesn't affect x86-64 in any way but makes i386 see the
ethernet-ports in the correct order.
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Jussi
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