Forcing initramfs to load udev 70-persistent-net.rules

Hello fine readers,

Chances are you're scouring the googles much like I was all morning trying to figure out how to get update-initramfs to pull in the 70-persistent-net.rules udev rule.

You may have stumbled on this debian bug or this ubuntu bug which coincidently ties in with my remote LUKS unlocking post.

I quickly found that NEED_PERSISTENT_NET=yes needed to be set, but it wasn't immediately obvious where that needed to be set as update-initramfs ignores environment variables. Well, I finally tracked down a reference to where you can set that variable.

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In the case that link dies, or that line is removed here is the necessary information:

Usually network interfaces are renamed after the root file system has been mounted, so if the root file system is mounted over the network then the 70-persistent-net.rules file must be copied to the initramfs. In most cases this is done automatically, but some setups may require explicitly setting "export NEED\_PERSISTENT_NET=yes" in a file in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/ . If 70-persistent-net.rules is copied to the initramfs then it must be updated every time a new interface is added.

and added it to my deployment script:

echo "export NEED_PERSISTENT_NET=yes" > /mnt/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/persistent_net_setup

which triggered the copying of 70-persistent-net.rules the next time I ran update-initramfs

Hopefully this helps you out!

-BadgerOps