if you page-up in vty3, can you see what your kernel command line is? alternately if it makes it to shell in vty2, 'cat /proc/cmdline' - i wonder if it's actually doing the ipappend stuff. you might need a newer pxelinux.0 if not. also, instead of 'ksdevice=bootif' you can do 'ksdevice=link ip=dhcp' ; the bootif argument is more useful if you have 2 nics enabled/link-up and want to make sure it doesnt pxeboot out one interface and then ks out the other. -=Eric