[Fedora-livecd-list] Bootloader --append option support?

[Bryan Kearney]

Ian Main wrote:
> Howdy list!
> 
> So I've been working on adding serial console support to ovirt (http://ovirt.org).  We use livecd-tools to create our images.  I wanted to add the serial console to the kernel command line but found there was no real easy way to do this (I'm using livecd-tools-017.1-1.fc9.x86_64). 
> 
> I see in the kickstart documentation that a --append flag is available to the 'bootloader' config option.  However, it is ignored by livecd-creator.  I was poking through the code and there's an 'extras' variable in the kernel command building, so the idea is there, it's just not hooked up.
> 
> Anyway, I was poking around in there so I could do up a patch, unless there's someone already mucking about or wants to fix that up.  Let me know.  I'm hoping this would be considered a bug and would go out in a point release?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Ian

I am seeing the append flag being used by the appliance creator. Any 
reason to (1) not use appliance creator or (2) ignore this in livecd tools?

-- bk