On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:50:11PM -0400, Scott Adkins wrote:I am having an issue with using a single kickstart for two different models of similar hardware (IBM Blade Center model 8678 and model 8832). Apparently, the newer model flips its concept of what is the primary ethernet, causing eth1 to come up instead of eth0. Since both interfaces actually have link state on them, I can't just "not specify" and expect the right one to be chosen. So, I am trying to find a better way to adapt to the hardware. First off, the line "network --bootproto dhcp --device eth1" is required to get the newer blades to boot. However, it will break the older blades.How about something like this in PRE: if [ -n "dmidecode | grep 8678" ] ; then echo "network --bootproto dhcp --device eth1" > /tmp/ksnet else echo "network --bootproto dhcp --device eth0" > /tmp/ksnet fi Then %include /tmp/ksnet where you would normally put the network line. Since you mention serial numbers, you could also use that in your tests. Phil
Wow! I have been looking for all kinds of commands that would give the
model type, and you came up with one right away! :)
I will give that a try, and I won't need to do anything with serial
numbers, hopefully :)
So, I am still confused about %PRE. Does it execute after every reboot?
Or does it execute only once, after something specific occurs?
Thanks!
Scott
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