[xcat-user] XCAT 1.2 install on BC HT using HS21BladeswithDaughter cards

[Anand Vaidya]

On Tuesday 22 January 2008 03:09:29 Egan Ford wrote:
> I do not know why RH would enumerate them differently.  Next time you
> install can you ALT-F2 from the console and run ipconfig -a and see if you
> can see all the NICs?
>

The ethernet renumbering is a pain. It has been discussed to death on the 
NPACI ROCKS mailing list (they have same problem), with no solution.

I suspect it is not just kernel driver that matters, probably anaconda plays a 
role too, esp if there is  mix of types (intel , broadcom), driver loading 
order etc. When the system boots up from HDD post-install, anaconda is not 
active so the order is the "natural" order that Linux would take.

You may also notice that different distros come up with different sequence (to 
add to the confusion)

Regards
Anand