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:
Why do you install lilo in the first place? SLES8 had a bug where lilo always was installed, but it was fixed in SP3.
This was already the way to install it when I joined this project (and I'll leave it tomorrow :-). I think it was done this way before SP3 was released and wasn't changed since. However, we also have to fix grub's device.map since it doesn't recognize HP's cciss driver. We have to add "(hd0) /dev/cciss/c0d0" in our postinstall script, I'm not sure if installing grub will work without problems. The installed version is grub-0.93-109. I didn't find anything in PSDB about the problem and according to http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=8899 this bug was fixed in July 2004. But I'll forward your comment to our autoyast maintainer to check this for the next version. Oliver -- +++ GMX DSL Premiumtarife 3 Monate gratis* + WLAN-Router 0,- EUR* +++ Clevere DSL-Nutzer wechseln jetzt zu GMX: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl