Rich,
   I think you should use the addkcmdline attribute in the bootparams 
table. 

Ling

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From:   Rich Sudlow <[email protected]>
To:     xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
Date:   11/23/2011 09:16 AM
Subject:        Re: [xcat-user] boottarget - passing kcmdline parameter



Xiao Peng Wang wrote:
> The problem was that you did not set the boottarget.kernel, otherwise 
> that xCAT does not know where to get the kernel.
> 

Thanks - but it does now....not sure why it's so hard to just
pass the extra argument.

Rich



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> 03:14:43---Hi I'm trying to add an optional parameter
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> From: Rich Sudlow <[email protected]>
> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
> Date: 2011-11-23 03:14
> Subject: [xcat-user] boottarget - passing kcmdline parameter
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi
> I'm trying to add an optional parameter
> biosdevname=0 when installing a node using pxe boot
> with rhels6.1
> 
> Documentation I've found leads me to believe that
> anything in boottarget.kdmdline gets passed
> 
> Here's my simple boottarget
> 
> #bprofile,kernel,initrd,kcmdline,comments,disable
> "compute",,,"biosdevname=0",,
> 
> This however doesn't seem to work as my pxe file
> doesn't get biosdevname=0 appended.
> 
> Has anyone using boottarget had success?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich
> 
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