[fedora-arm] [F15] NFS boot [howto]

[Niels de Vos]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 09:16:49AM -0500, Jeffrey Bastian wrote:
> On 2011-07-30 13:18, Zoran Pericic wrote:
> > I compiled kernel with smsc mac address patch because pandaboard choose
> > random address on every boot. But you are free to use any kernel rpm
> > which best suite your needs.
> 
> 
> This patch isn't needed anymore.  The latest kernels only generate a 
> random MAC address once on boot which allows you to manually set the MAC 
> address with this line in your ifcfg-eth0(*) file:
>    MACADDR=01:02:03:04:05:06

Ah, well, when doing root-over-nfs you probably still need the setting?
Or are the ifcfg-* files included in the initramfs?

Thanks,
Niels

> * It's eth0 now with 2.6.39, not usb0
> 
> More info at:
>  
> http://jeffbastian.blogspot.com/2011/07/persistent-mac-address-on-pandaboard.html
> 
> (Also, I need to update my blog post: apparently Ubuntu has a different 
> patch that generates a mostly-unique MAC address based on the board's 
> die id.)
> 
> Jeff
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