That was the first place I looked and it was edited in the beginning. I read something about MAKEDEV cache, could that be the culprit? Thanks, jlc

Phil, This is exactly what I did, I moved the file out altogether. Should I have simply removed the line in it? It recreated the file next boot with the old mac address only to still cause issues! Thanks, jlc

Phil Meyer wrote: One further clarification: To make a 'clean' system disk that can be put into another system, remove all the /etc/udev/rules.d/*persistant* and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*eth? and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*wlan? and /etc/X11/xorg.conf files. I always do this in a post install, and have not tried it on a live system. It may be necessary to do this from a rescue disk. I do not know if a running udev will 'let you' remove that data. Sorry to not be able to verify the steps on a previously running system. I just don't do those. However, every day I use a virtual machine on my desktop to install an OS on Compact Flash Cards, and thumb drives, to be used in a variety of equipment. This method works perfectly for that, with the exception that I have to also rebuild the initrd image with drivers that anaconda did not see during the install. Here is what I use, for the curious: My %post section includes this: # # fix udev rules for fake interfaces # rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules rm -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf # cat << _EOF > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 # DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR= IPV6INIT=no ONBOOT=yes DHCP_HOSTNAME=skid TYPE=Ethernet _EOF # # make sure usb-storage is in the initrd image # kernel=`ls /boot/vmli* | awk -F\- '{printf("%s-%s\n", $2,$3)}'` initrd="/boot/initrd-${kernel}.img" rm $initrd mkinitrd --preload=ehci-hcd --preload=ahci --preload=libata --preload=jbd --preload=ohci-hcd --preload=uhci-hcd --preload=scsi_wait_scan --preload=usb-storage --preload=scsi_mod --preload=sd_mod --preload=pata_amd --preload=ata_generic --preload=pata_cs5536 --preload=pata_acpi $initrd $kernel # Good Luck

I copied the partition to another disk, and put that to a new computer, installed grub and moved /etc/udev/rules.d/*persistent* and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*eth? to /root/backups. The system boots and seems to work, but there are no new /etc/udev/rules.d/*persistent* files, should there be? Are the /etc/udev/rules.d/*persistent* needed? Even if those are not required can I somehow re-create those? I do have the old ones, but I would not like to use those, I'd rather make/generate new ones if possible (and needed). -Paavo -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=296186&t... If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster(a)fcp.surfsite.org and/or blame paavo.leinonen(a)wipsl.com.