diff --git a/xCAT-genesis-scripts/bin/dodiscovery b/xCAT-genesis-scripts/bin/dodiscovery
index 3c3929dd8..d1241f82d 100755
--- a/xCAT-genesis-scripts/bin/dodiscovery
+++ b/xCAT-genesis-scripts/bin/dodiscovery
@@ -135,7 +135,8 @@ fi
 #so we have some cases where DMI table explictly records every function number, and some where only first function is enumerated
 #so for each onboard device, we record it.  If it is also the first function, we'll seek out other function numbers and append
 #if that other function number does not show up in its own dmi type 41 record
-for onboard in `dmidecode -t 41|egrep '(Type:|Bus Address)'|grep -A1 Ethernet|grep -v Ethernet|sed -e 's/.*Address: //'`; do
+if [ -f "/usr/sbin/dmidecode" ]; then
+    for onboard in `dmidecode -t 41|egrep '(Type:|Bus Address)'|grep -A1 Ethernet|grep -v Ethernet|sed -e 's/.*Address: //'`; do
 	obdevs=("${obdevs[@]}" $onboard)
 	if [ ${onboard#*.}=0 ]; then
 		truncslot=${onboard%.*}
@@ -145,8 +146,8 @@ for onboard in `dmidecode -t 41|egrep '(Type:|Bus Address)'|grep -A1 Ethernet|gr
 			fi
 		done
 	fi
-done
-		
+    done
+fi
 #TODO: downed nics, also examine /sys/bus/pci/*/ for more network class devices that might not have driver suppert
 for dev in `ip link|grep -B1 ether|grep UP|awk '{print $2}'|sed -e s/://|grep -v usb0`; do
 	FIRMDESC=""
@@ -155,7 +156,7 @@ for dev in `ip link|grep -B1 ether|grep UP|awk '{print $2}'|sed -e s/://|grep -v
 	PCI_SLOT=`grep PCI_SLOT_NAME /sys/class/net/$dev/device/uevent|awk -F= '{print $2}'`
 	ADDRESS=`ip address show dev $dev|grep "inet "|grep global|awk '{print $2}'`
 	MAC=`ip link show dev $dev|grep ether|awk '{print $2}'| tr /a-f/ /A-F/`
-	if [ ! -z "$PCI_SLOT" ]; then
+	if [[ ! -z "$PCI_SLOT" && -f "/usr/sbin/dmidecode" ]]; then
 	SLOTNAME=`dmidecode -t 9|egrep '(Designation|Address)'|grep -B1 $PCI_SLOT|grep Designation|sed -e 's/.*Designation:[ 	]*//'`
 	if [ -z "$SLOTNAME" ]; then #check for on board device
 		index=1
diff --git a/xCAT-genesis-scripts/bin/doxcat b/xCAT-genesis-scripts/bin/doxcat
index 7d6203531..b0e5bb7df 100755
--- a/xCAT-genesis-scripts/bin/doxcat
+++ b/xCAT-genesis-scripts/bin/doxcat
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ echo "Done"
 PUBKEY=`openssl rsa -in /etc/xcat/privkey.pem -pubout 2> /dev/null|grep -v "PUBLIC KEY"`
 PUBKEY=`echo $PUBKEY|sed -e 's/ //g'`
 export PUBKEY
-/sbin/rsyslogd -c4
+/sbin/rsyslogd -4
 mkdir -p /var/lib/lldpad
 echo 'lldp :' >> /var/lib/lldpad/lldpad.conf
 echo '{' >> /var/lib/lldpad/lldpad.conf
@@ -199,6 +199,13 @@ ntpd -g -x
 # rv 0 state does not work with the new ntp versions
 #(while ! ntpq -c "rv 0 state"|grep 'state=4' > /dev/null; do sleep 1; done; hwclock --systohc) &
 (while [ "`ntpq -c \"rv 0 offset\" | grep \"offset=\" | awk -F \"=\" '{print $2}' | awk -F \".\" '{print $1}' | sed s/-//`" -ge 1000 ]; do sleep 1; done; hwclock --systohc) &
+IPMI_ERROR=`ipmitool mc info`
+IPMI_RC=$?
+IPMI_SUPPORT=1
+if [ $IPMI_RC -ne 0 ]; then
+    IPMI_SUPPORT=0
+fi
+
 if [ -f "/usr/sbin/dmidecode" ]; then
     if dmidecode|grep IPMI > /dev/null; then
         modprobe ipmi_si
@@ -267,10 +274,14 @@ while :; do
 		cd -
 	elif [ "$dest" = "reboot" -o "$dest" = "boot" ]; then
 		/bin/nextdestiny $XCATMASTER:$XCATPORT
-		ipmitool chassis bootdev pxe
+                if [ $IPMI_SUPPORT -ne 0 ]; then
+		    ipmitool chassis bootdev pxe
+                fi
 		reboot -f
 	elif [ "$dest" = "install" -o "$dest" = "netboot" ]; then
-		ipmitool chassis bootdev pxe
+                if [ $IPMI_SUPPORT -ne 0 ]; then
+		    ipmitool chassis bootdev pxe
+                fi
 		reboot -f
 	elif [ "$dest" = sysclone ]; then
                 /bin/dosysclone