JFTR: This feature was implemented in live-boot recently AFAICS:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.live/18810
https://gist.github.com/riccardomurri/157ef6ece0a6069d8110

We don't use the network handling from live-boot as-is though since we prefer
the ip=... argument handling as documented in
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt

So this needs further investigation how to handle this on our site.

Hi!

This makes sense and sounds like a useful feature to me, thanks for suggestion.

FTR, if someones wants to work on this: https://github.com/grml/live-boot-grml/
is where it should go into (which is based on
http://live.debian.net/devel/live-boot/ and once that feature is available there
it would also be part of further Debian derivatives too).

regards,
-mika-

Hi,

first, big thanks for grml. It's super useful.

It would be useful if one could select what eth device to configure
based on mac address, rather than device name.

A use case for this is a DHCP server that hands out a dynamic grml
configuration.  It'll then know what MAC address the client should use,
but have no information about what device this corresponds to.

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