Hi list, I installed 12.2-ß1 from NET dd'ed to a USB stick. The installation GUI has a problem with selecting some packages (grepmail, ruby-devel, etc.) causing it to drop into ncurses and starting from the beginning. It stays in ncurses until package selection where it goes back into GUI mode until some selection causes it to again drop to ncurses and back at the beginning. This would be a show stopper for new users. Another problem is configuring the boot method. I chose legacy grub, unchecked the separate /home as I use a separate /common data partition softlinked to /home. I also clicked on "other (lower right corner)" and selected merging with existing configuration. That did not find my OS 12.1 installation. During partition selection I left /boot unformatted to maintain my other installs. Boot method was set for boot from /boot, not MBR. After encountering some problems during boot, when I finally got into the user x-windows session and went to check what /boot/grub/menu.lst had in it and found the entire /boot folder empty. After rebooting into OS 12.1 and checking /boot, it still is empty. I also rebooted into a live PartedMagic and it also showed /boot to be empty. /var/log/boot.msg shows sda3 (/boot) being loaded succesfully. Attached are pertinent logs. Tom -- “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Albert Pine Tom Taylor - retired penguin AMD Phenom II x4 955 -- 4GB RAM -- 2x1.5TB sata2 openSUSE 12.1x86_64 openSUSE 12.2x86_64 KDE 4.7.2, FF 7.0 KDE 4.8.4, FF 12.2 claws-mail 3.8.0 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net