I'm also having a reboot problem, this one is with SLES8. Up to now all installations went fine: after autoyast completes the system does a reboot and executes my own startup scripts in rc3.d to finish the installation.
Yesterday I installed a similar machine (HP DL380 G3, other machines were IBM x235, x360 and HP ML370/570), but after autoyast finished the server didn't reboot but entered runlevel 5.
Sorry for bothering you, found the problem...
And it was? Might help others having same issue :-)
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: 1. in the bootloader section: <kernel_parameters>acpi=off 3</kernel_parameters> so that it boots to runlevel 3 after autoyast finishes and 2. in our grub configuration (/boot/grub/menu.lst) I forgot to set it in the bootloader section, so when the machines boots from the hard disk for the first time it goes to runlevel 5 after autoyast finishes (and ignores my postinstall scripts in /etc/init.d/rc3.d). 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