From 78cdcc04b367ccfc6c13ab5e9f51fd662e1de778 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Casandra Qiu <cxhong@us.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:04:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Bug #4580, Parse Mac Address before generate network boot
 params

---
 xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/debian.pm | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/debian.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/debian.pm
index 630f7f012..c0bfa3fcd 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/debian.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/debian.pm
@@ -837,7 +837,11 @@ sub mkinstall
             if ($maxmem) {
                 $kcmdline.=" mem=$maxmem";
             }
-            my $net_params = xCAT::NetworkUtils->gen_net_boot_params($ent->{installnic},$ent->{primarynic},$macent->{mac});
+
+            # parse Mac table to get one mac address in case there are multiples.
+            $mac = xCAT::Utils->parseMacTabEntry($macent->{mac},$node);
+
+            my $net_params = xCAT::NetworkUtils->gen_net_boot_params($ent->{installnic},$ent->{primarynic},$mac);
             if (exists($net_params->{nicname})) {
                 $kcmdline .= " netcfg/choose_interface=". $net_params->{nicname};
             } elsif (exists($net_params->{mac})) {