Ubuntu
initramfs-tools package

  1. Bug #1632601
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 1632601

Revision history for this message
David Masover (kugnae) wrote :

Workaround: In /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf, I simply set:

IP=eth0
DEVICE=eth0

If my analysis is correct, DEVICE is ignored and I can simply use IP. If so, I think there are still at least two bugs here: Autodetection doesn't work with multiple interfaces (and it's clear from the code that it's _trying_ to support that use case), and the sample file has this misleading comment:

#
# DEVICE: ...
#
# Specify a specific network interface, like eth0
# Overridden by optional ip= bootarg
#

This makes it sound like DEVICE is used if ip= isn't set, but that's not true -- if ip= isn't set, and IP isn't set, DEVICE is overridden anyway.