writing this for attachment to prevent mailer line wrapping trying to work with iscsi and local disk can't have device names as mount points doing an install (sles11) and selecting UUID in the fstab options during partitioning built - rebooted there are several issues 1) /etc/fstab ntest1:~ # cat /etc/fstab UUID= swap swap defaults 0 0 UUID=122b5e09-7ce3-4900-bd2f-88df39ed6b57 / ext3 noatime,acl,user_xattr 1 1 getting the uuid from /dev/disk/by-uuid for the swap partion and putting that in the fstab then running swapon -a mounted the swap partition just fine 2) blkid we found that blkid output wasn't order consistent ntest1:/dev/disk/by-uuid # blkid /dev/sda2 /dev/sda2: TYPE="swap" UUID="0b2c1e9b-9c36-4b30-bb88-8d295d2cf3f5" ntest1:/dev/disk/by-uuid # blkid /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: UUID="122b5e09-7ce3-4900-bd2f-88df39ed6b57" TYPE="ext3" 3) autoinst.xml the generated autoinst.xml still has device for all the partitions instead of uuid as expected. 4) grub restore=/dev/sda2 in grub entry instead of pointing to the UUID