How to adapt F9 initrd to new motherboard/chipset, was: F9 doesn't find swap or /root system on new motherboard

Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
Mon Jan 19 20:41:21 UTC 2009


M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Mon, January 19, 2009 3:14 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 
> 
>> What probably happened is that the NIC on the new motherboard is now
>> eth1.
> 
> OK, thanks a lot for this extra explanation. I'm not at home right now, I
> had to stop the restore and do something else, but I'll certainly try
> these suggestions. If you don't hear from me about this again, it means it
> worked :-)

If the ethernet is not showing up as eth0, it could be the system
has still memory of the old NIC; try to have a look at HWADDR in

  /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

and the naming rules in

  /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

Best regards.
-- 
   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it




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