I'm also having a reboot problem, this one is with SLES8. Up to now all installations went fine: after autoyast completes the system does a reboot and executes my own startup scripts in rc3.d to finish the installation.
Yesterday I installed a similar machine (HP DL380 G3, other machines were IBM x235, x360 and HP ML370/570), but after autoyast finished the server didn't reboot but entered runlevel 5.
Sorry for bothering you, found the problem...
And it was? Might help others having same issue :-)
It was related to the bug that SLES8 sets the default runlevel to 5 when
configuring X11 in autoyast.xml. The workaround is to add a "3" as a kernel
parameter. Since we replace LILO with GRUB in our postinstall script we have
to set runlevel 3 twice:
1. in the bootloader section: