[Solved] Kickstart Install - Network Disabled by Default

[Thegs]

Hello, I'm having some trouble creating a kickstart configuration file. In the config file I have network set as:

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network --onboot=yes --device=link --bootproto=dhcp --noipv6

But when I boot the .iso I get:

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dracut-initqueue[554]: parse-kickstart WARNING: No device with link found for --device=link

So I checked a non-kickstarted installation .iso and the network is in the DOWN state by default there too. I tried adding `ifup --all` to the %pre section but that did not work. I cannot specify a network device in the kickstart config because this image will be deployed across a range of systems with different interface names so it needs to be as generic as possible. Is there a setting I can set in the kickstart config, or any other config file in the installation disk even, to have the installer automatically bring up the network? Thank you in advance.

[TrevorH]

That says there is no device with a link. Are you sure it's all cabled up correctly?

[Thegs]

I'm currently testing it through a VM in VirtualBox. The network settings of the VM work when I load other Linux installers like Ubuntu's. I can also enable the network manually in the graphical CentOS installer, so the network should be working, it's just not turning any interfaces on at boot.

[TrevorH]

What ethernet card is selected for the VM in the vbox settings? Some that it emulates are not supported at all.

[Thegs]

It is currently set to Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (82540EM).

[TrevorH]

That should be a supported card.

[Thegs]

Yeah, it's strange. I'll just mess with the %post section to see if it is something that I can do after install for the time being.

[TrevorH]

I just tried here and it works for me. I'm using a VM on vbox 5.1.18 with the same ethernet card as you. My kernel command line from the PXE menu looks like

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initrd=images/centos/x86_64/7.3/initrd.img ramdisk_size=200000 ip=dhcp repo=http://192.168.1.7/mirrors/CentOS-7-x86_64/  ks=http://192.168.1.7/mirrors/seven2.ks text

and my seven2.ks file includes "network --bootproto=dhcp --device=link --ipv6=auto --activate"

I did need to increase the RAM on the VM from 1024MB to 2048 or I got weird out of space errors downloading the kickstart file. A smaller value than 2048 might also work but I figured I just wanted it to work.

[Thegs]

I'm using a kickstart file kept within the .iso, but adding the ip=dhpc to the kernel boot options did fix it. Thank you for helping me out, I'll mark this as solved.