[TriLUG] eth0 to enp3s0f2

[Stephen P. Schaefer via TriLUG]

BTW: kernel options appear to differ between distributions, so

Red Hat/CentOS: biosdevname=0 gentoo: net.ifnames=0

I invite others to add to add to that list.

- Stephen


On Thu, Sep 10, 2015, at 12:40 AM, Stephen P. Schaefer wrote:
> Yup: I un-cpio'd initrd.img and found my way to lib/udev/rules.d/71-
> biosdevname.rules where I found a comment describing the kernel
> command line option "biosdevname=0".  That will take care of my
> circumstances for a good while now.  I'm not dealing with a gentoo
> distribution, so net.ifnames=0 is inapplicable.
>
> - Stephen
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015, at 07:55 PM, Brian Weaver wrote:
>> You should be able to add a command line parameter to the linux boot
>> to disable the use of BIOS dev names, works with dracut kernels
>>
>> Navigate to
>> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html and
>> look for biosdevname
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Stephen P. Schaefer via TriLUG
>> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>> I know I'm quite late to this party, but could someone describe
>>> survival in the circle of hell in which all my installation
>>> infrastructure is trashed because I no longer have any idea what my
>>> network interface name is going to be?  All the kickstart files, all
>>> the kickstart generation code, all the cobbler snippets, useless.
>>>
>>>
- Stephen
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