[ale] eth numbering change

[Phil Turmel]

On 02/09/2017 12:19 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> On 2017-02-09 09:15, Phil Turmel wrote:

>> This is also true for hard drives.  And all of this is precisely the
>> reason udev persistent name rules were created, and blkid label and uuid
>> names are used.
>>
>> Don't use ethX names with modern kernels.  Period.
>>
>> Phil
> 
> I wouldn't say never.  I had one installation that steadfastly refused
> to boot properly with UUIDs for the disk.  It was a very recent kernel,
> too, which made it much more confusing.  I had to force it back to using
> /dev/sdAN references to get things working.

The kernel doesn't process any of the naming schemes.  It all goes to
udev, which must be in the initramfs to boot off of a LABEL or UUID
root.  What you described is an initramfs failure.

Phil