Just some suggestions 1 )Are you booting for Autoyast installations from the network ? If yes is the boot image ( kernel & initrd ) at the same level as the DVD ? 2) Does the same kernel type ( smp or defaults ) gets installed via autoyast or the manuel installation. Saying this its a good idea to check the difference between a manual installation and a autoyast installation in respect to kernel type and kernel ( initrd) setting in /etc/sysconfig/kernel and loaded modules ( lsmod ) 3) I our environment i had problems with certain types of Dell hardware on OpenSuse 10.3 thus i had to configure them after the installation. Example: ... # Tune system before first reboot - must run in chroot environment .... echo "INFO: rebuild initrd for EVO , DELL GX2[0-9]0 and Precsion WS boards" hwinfo --bios | egrep -iw "evo|gx2[0-9]0|WS.*360" | grep -iq "Product" if [ $? = 0 ] ; then # Load drivers to access the disk . /etc/sysconfig/kernel INITRD_MODULES="piix ide-generic ide-core ide-disk "$INITRD_MODULES perl -p -i -e "s/INITRD_MODULES=.*/INITRD_MODULES=\"$INITRD_MODULES\"/" /etc/sysconfig/kernel mkinitrd perl -p -i -e "s/resume/ insmode=ide-generic resume/" /boot/grub/menu.lst # Enable 32 IDE mode after reboot echo "hdparm -c 1 /dev/hda" >> /etc/init.d/boot.local 3.1) Since i had also in the past problems with dual cores on Dells i just disabled dual core usage as well as power management in the bios. hth Hajo ============================ Hans-Joachim Ehlers UNIX Systems Engineer EUMETSAT Am Kavalleriesand, 31 64295, Darmstadt, Germany Tel : +49 6151 807-7307 mailto:hansjoachim.ehlers@eumetsat.int http://www.eumetsat.int -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org