does not honor netcfg/choose_interface in preseed
Bug #855921 reported by
Monty Taylor
This bug affects 13 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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netcfg (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Maverick |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Natty |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Oneiric |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
orchestra (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Dustin Kirkland | ||
Maverick |
Won't Fix
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Natty |
Won't Fix
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Oneiric |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Dustin Kirkland |
Bug Description
if you pxeboot an image and hand it a preseed file, and in that preseed file you have:
d-i netcfg/
it doesn't work and it pops up a menu and asks you what interface you want as your default interface.
If, however, you pass netcfg/
In a room full of headless machines being booted by cobbler, displaying menus is bad, as is not having those machines be able to find dhcp.
Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
description: | updated |
Changed in orchestra (Ubuntu Oneiric): | |
assignee: | Andres Rodriguez (andreserl) → Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
affects: | debian-installer (Ubuntu) → netcfg (Ubuntu) |
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Okay, so this one might be a little tricky...
Our preseed is coming in over http (via the url=http://... parameter in the kernel command line). That necessitates a network up.
I think what we'll need to do is to force the orchestra configuration to default the choose_interface to eth0, and document that this needs to be tweaked for any systems where that's not the case.