Hi, I tried this page here to create a bootable USB stick for workstations that don't have a DVD drive, just a CDROM: http://en.opensuse.org/SuSE_install_from_USB_drive It boots fine from Dell Precision workstations and one can perform a network based Autoyast installation by entering the hostip, gateway, autoyast and install parameters. The USB stick is removed as soon the installer has loaded. However, when the installation reaches the point where GRUB is installed, the installer thinks that the USB stick is still there and configures wrong device names. The first internal disk becomes hd1 instead of hd0. Then when it wants to boot for the first time, it does not work because GRUB wants to load from the second internal disk. When changing the root parameter from the boot menu, then it works. Is there a way to ignore/disable the USB stick during Autoyast GRUB configuration so that the first internal disk becomes hd0? I didn't find a hint in the Autoyast documentation. http://www.suse.com/~ug/autoyast_doc/CreateProfile.Bootloader.html The only I can think of is a chroot script that modifies /etc/grub.conf /boot/grub/device.map, /boot/grub/menu.lst and run grub-install. Sample GRUB config when USB stick was used for booting: adnws001:~ # cat /etc/grub.conf setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd1,0) (hd1,0) quit adnws001:~ # cat /boot/grub/device.map (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd1) /dev/sda (hd2) /dev/sdb adnws001:~ # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Oct 17 08:03:07 CEST 2008 default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd1,0)/message ##YaST - activate ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title openSUSE 11.0 - 2.6.25.16-0.1 (default) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.16-0.1-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST380011A_3JV9NCQN-part3 resume=/dev/sda2 splash=silent showopts vga=0x31a initrd /initrd-2.6.25.16-0.1-default -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org