Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (49 mails)

[Joseph V Moss <jmoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Thursday 11 June 2009 09:19:02 pm Mike Marion wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 06:04:06AM -0700, Justin Lim wrote:
> > > Is there a type of delay command for the NIC during the autoyast process?
> > >
> > > In RHEL it would be nicdelay=XX and/or linkdelay=XX for machines that's
> > > having portfast issues.
>
> > the DHCPTimeout option should do it for you.  I've had to use it in the
> > past to allow for cases where the nic takes several seconds to get a proper
> > link.
>
> Alternatively, you can use a post-script in your AY profile that does nothing 
> else that it sleeps for defined period of time, as described here: 
> http://www.suse.de/~ug/AutoYaST_FAQ.html#aa
>
> We used it in the past to workaround buggy NIC driver issues, where it takes 
> ages for network to come up ...

The equivalent linuxrc option is netwait=XX

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