changing my pxelinux.cfg stanza to LABEL InstallLEAP MENU LABEL Install LEAP Beta KERNEL /memdisk APPEND initrd=/LEAP/leap.iso harddisk=1 INCLUDE pxelinux.cfg/default.iso makes memdisk 0x81 and the built-in disk 0x80. With this, I get a installation proposal without yast crashing. I have not yet proceeded with the installation (because the system is already zypper dup'ed to Leap), but this really looks like the root of the problem: only BIOS drive 0x81 available but no 0x80.