Hey, there, I usually do not reply to my own posts, but there is a small, yet misleading inaccuracy in here:
Hmm ... folks using root on NFS or iSCSI tend to put affected network interfaces into startmode "nfsroot" or "ibft" [1] (this is STARTMODE param in ifcfg file, <startmode> element in XML profile).
A valid startmode is just "nfsroot" and it is applicable to both NFS and iSCSI. "ibft" is a keyword as well, but to a BOOTPROTO parameter (as you can see, ibft feature is fairly new :) ) If you're installing (interactively) SLE11 SP1 or openSUSE 11.3 [1] and YaST detects disk on network, it'll automatically create an interface config file with correct startmode. fB. [1] Packages with these features in are built for openSUSE 11.2 in YaST:Head OBS repo, as usually -- \\\\\ Katarina Machalkova \\\\\\\__o YaST developer __\\\\\\\'/_ & hedgehog painter