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Synopsis: I need to duplicate functionality of the SuSE 9.x boot CD, via pxelinux. I haven't been able to get one feature of the boot CD to work, passing the 'hostname=' parameter to the kernel before booting it. In order to have new deployments register their hostname at the time they request a DHCP address (during initial install) I need to pass this from the local console,

Question, testing the waters to see if anyone has input on this. My summary belief is that I'm seeing a problem with the PXE bios code causing this issue. I'm trying to find out what else I can do to confirm that, and rule out pxelinux/. I'd like to get a confirmation that the use of pxelinux isn't a factor, as I'm not using 'keeppxe'. I'm rolling out a