Boot error message with ifup

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:16:54PM +0200, Florent Gilain wrote:
> I finally ran in gui init5 and used neat command to assign Mac address
> correctly (using the assign to..button) and all is now ok 

Did that by chance add HWADDR lines to each of the
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* files?  I think your
original problem was that one or more of the ifcfg-eth* files didn't
have a HWADDR line, so the kernel named one eth0 (but not the one
you wanted named eth0), so then there was a conflict and the
kernel-named-eth0 device wasn't getting renamed away to something else
such that the you-wanted-eth0 device couldn't get that name.

> Onboard A = eth0
> Onboard B = eth1
> PCI addon card = eth2

See also my name_eths program at
http://linux.dell.com/files/name_eths/ that does exactly this - it
assigns HWADDR lines for each of the ifcfg-eth* files for exactly this
algorithm.

Thanks,
Matt

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