no permanent MAC address? need it to give Pine64 a reserved IP.

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that did it! thank you very much — you were correct, i was putting that mac_addr=... assignment on a speaarate line. i put it on the same line as the console=... args, and it works! i've now rebooted several times and have the same MAC address, like i need. thank you, again.

should i perhaps write this up as note in the forums? here or in the linux forum?

All my images remember the mac address automatically after first boot.