Serial console question

[Lec]

Actually while I was awaiting forum vetting, I determined that the problem appears to be that the command line is not being passed through.
I was able to use the new virtualbox feature to record the console, and from there saw this:

"Command line:"
On a standard PXE server, I see:

"Command line: console=ttyS1,115200 ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs ro init=/usr/local/bin/ts_diskless_init BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5_lustre.1.8.8_2.0.1 "

This allows me to direct the output of the console to the serial line to debug. I was attempting to debug why my boot command was not working and that is why I was trying to direct the output. As it turns out, the cause for my problem as well as for the lack of redirection is the same. I am not processing the command line.