# Autoyast issues: udev rules & menu.lst

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/autoyast-issues-udev-rules-menu-lst/24243>\
**Category:** SLES Install-Boot\
**Created:** [August 7, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/autoyast-issues-udev-rules-menu-lst/24243 "2013-08-07T00:28:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/autoyast-issues-udev-rules-menu-lst/24243/1 "2013-08-07T00:28:53Z")

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I’m working on a SLES 11.2 autoinstall for one of our products. It is mostly working except for 2 items that I can’t figure out.

1. The udev rules for ethernet interfaces is not matching what I specify. In my autoinst.xml I have:

I can see in y2log-1 that it read in those values:

2013-07-30 09:17:27 \<1\> linux(3583) [YCP] LanUdevAuto.ycp:140 net-udev rules:[$[“name”:“eth2”, “rule”:“ID”, “value”:“0000:84:00.0”], $[“name”:“eth3”, “rule”:“ID”, “value”:“0000:84:00.1”], $[“name”:“eth0”, “rule”:“ID”, “value”:“0000:01:00.0”], $[“name”:“eth1”, “rule”:“ID”, “value”:“0000:01:00.1”]]

However, once the installation is complete, the interfaces are in the wrong order, and 70-persistent-net.rules looks like this:

# PCI device 0x8086:0x105e (e1000e)

SUBSYSTEM==“net”, ACTION==“add”, DRIVERS==“?_", ATTR{address}==“68:05:ca:14:da:fa”, ATTR{dev\_id}==“0x0”, ATTR{type}==“1”, KERNEL=="eth_”, NAME=“eth0”

# PCI device 0x8086:0x10c9 (igb)

SUBSYSTEM==“net”, ACTION==“add”, DRIVERS==“?_", ATTR{address}==“00:25:90:c3:37:0d”, ATTR{dev\_id}==“0x0”, ATTR{type}==“1”, KERNEL=="eth_”, NAME=“eth3”

# PCI device 0x8086:0x10c9 (igb)

SUBSYSTEM==“net”, ACTION==“add”, DRIVERS==“?_", ATTR{address}==“00:25:90:c3:37:0c”, ATTR{dev\_id}==“0x0”, ATTR{type}==“1”, KERNEL=="eth_”, NAME=“eth1”

# PCI device 0x8086:0x105e (e1000e)

SUBSYSTEM==“net”, ACTION==“add”, DRIVERS==“?_", ATTR{address}==“68:05:ca:14:da:fb”, ATTR{dev\_id}==“0x0”, ATTR{type}==“1”, KERNEL=="eth_”, NAME=“eth2”

So what should have been eth0-eth2 winds up being eth1, eth3, eth0, eth2.

1. I’m getting double entries in /boot/grub/menu.lst, plus extra items in the kernel lines.

autoinst.xml contains:

 hd0 /dev/sda hd1 /dev/sdb true true SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 - 3.0.13-0.27 false 10 --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 --timeout=10 console serial (bunch of modules...) grub splash=0 crashkernel=256M-:128M@16M elevator=deadline console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 showopts (hd0,0)/vmlinuz 1 (hd0,0)/initrd SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 - 3.0.13-0.27 linux /dev/sda4 image 0x314 showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max\_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe splash=0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 (hd0,0)/vmlinuz (hd0,0)/initrd Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX failsafe /dev/sda4 image 0x314 

After install menu.lst looks like this:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Jul 30 09:31:21 EDT 2013

default 0  
timeout 10  
serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1  
##YaST - activate  
terminal --timeout=10 console serial

###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###  
title SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 - 3.0.13-0.27 (default)  
root (hd0,0)  
kernel /vmlinuz-3.0.13-0.27-default root=/dev/sda4 splash=0 crashkernel=256M-:128M@16M elevator=deadline console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 instmode=cd showopts vga=0x314  
initrd /initrd-3.0.13-0.27-default

###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###  
title Failsafe – SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 - 3.0.13-0.27  
root (hd0,0)  
kernel /vmlinuz-3.0.13-0.27-default root=/dev/sda4 showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max\_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe splash=0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 vga=0x314  
initrd /initrd-3.0.13-0.27-default

###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###  
title SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 - 3.0.13-0.27 /boot/vmlinuz  
root (hd0,0)  
kernel /vmlinuz-3.0.13-0.27-default root=/dev/sda4 splash=0 crashkernel=256M-:128M@16M elevator=deadline console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 instmode=cd showopts vga=0x314  
initrd /initrd-3.0.13-0.27-default

###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###  
title Failsafe – SUSE LINUX  
root (hd0,0)  
kernel /vmlinuz-3.0.13-0.27-default root=/dev/sda4 showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max\_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe splash=0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 vga=0x314  
initrd /initrd-3.0.13-0.27-default

Note the double entries for each section, plus the ‘instmode=cd’ tacked on the kernel line for the ‘linux’ section.

Lastly, I’m using a rules file and merging one of two config-specific xml files with an autoinst\_common.xml file. When I do the merge by hand on the command line, the resulting xml file looks correct. Is there an option to make autoyast leave behind a copy of the xml file it used to install like you can when doing it manually ? I want to verify that it matches what I get by hand.

Appreciate any suggestions you guys can offer.