On 14.10.2014 00:23, Orion Poplawski wrote: > The dracut.cmdline man page lists: > > ip=<client-IP>:[<peer>]:<gateway-IP>:<netmask>:<client_hostname>:<interface>: > {none|off|dhcp|on|any|dhcp6|auto6|ibft}[:[<dns1>][:<dns2>]] > > for explicit (static) network configuration. To my old mind, "netmask" > refers to something of the form 255.X.X.X. However if I use that form with > EL7 or Fedora 20, it fails with a message like: > > Bringing up interface eth0: Error: an inet prefix is expected rather than > "10.8.0.0/255.255.255.0". > > It works if I give it a CIDR suffix. It appears that the netmask for used > to work. > > - Orion Hmm, in my case "ip=192.168.50.101::192.168.50.1:255.255.255.0:iscsi-1:ens3:off" results in: ip addr flush dev ens3 ip addr add 192.168.50.101/255.255.255.0 brd + dev ens3 ip route replace default via 192.168.50.1 dev ens3 echo iscsi-1 > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname Which works on my machine. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html