Tom Horsley wrote (on Wed 04-Apr-2012 at 12:57 +0100):
On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 12:41:59 +0100 'Chris Hall' wrote:
There is clearly a mechanism for this, since an upgrade (rather than a clean install) appears to do it. But it seems to be buried many layers deep in udev spells :-(
I think "yum erase biosdevname" will eradicate all helpful renaming features and allow your persistent net definition to work (maybe :- ).
It certainly appears to do the trick :-) All my ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth0:xx appear to work again ! And all my scripts work !
You are a prince among men.
Thanks,
Chris