Firstly, sorry for the long email (and if you already read this on the auto-install list), I'd rather put more info than not enough ;-) I've been tasked with setting up Autoyast for my company's SLES 9.1 installs. I used yast2 to create the media directories (SLES & SP3) and decided to run some network (http) install tests first before doing the xml Autoyast stuff. I've tested this on two Dell desktops for test with the same result. Ultimately we will be installing on PowerEdges but I haven't been able to test that hardware yet and I doubt it will make a difference. What I'm doing: Booting to CD, choosing http silent install along with selecting local, packages, partitioning scheme (a temp partition with tmpfs and the remaining on / as reiserfs). I choose to let grub load from the MBR. The install over the network runs fine. However, when it completes and reboots the problem comes in: "GRUB Loading stage2.. GRUB Loading stage2.." And hangs. I've booted into rescue mode and viewed the Yast logs but nothing is sticking out at me: -in y2logRPM.log packages including kernel shows installed ok -in y2log there are a few errors, but i wouldn't consider any critical -y2loggrub: --------------------------------------- GNU GRUB version 0.94 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) <snip> grub> root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83 grub> install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,1)/boot/grub/menu.lst grub> quit Root device: /dev/hda2 (mounted on / as reiserfs) Module list: reiserfs ---------------------------------------- -y2logmkinitrd: ---------------------------------------- Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-7.244-default Initrd image: /boot/initrd-2.6.5-7.244-default Shared libs: lib/ld-2.3.3.so lib/libblkid.so.1.0 lib/libc.so.6 lib/libselinux.so.1 lib/libuuid.so.1.2 Modules: kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko Including: udev You may now have to update your boot loader configuration. ------------------------------------------ The /boot/ directory seems normal to me: ------------------------------------------ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 119140 Dec 12 19:58 Kerntypes-2.6.5-7.244-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 774348 Dec 12 19:44 System.map-2.6.5-7.244-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 May 12 11:56 backup_mbr lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 May 16 14:21 boot -> . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5969920 May 16 14:03 boot.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57001 Dec 12 19:58 config-2.6.5-7.244-default drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 416 May 12 11:56 grub lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 May 16 14:21 initrd -> initrd-2.6.5-7.244-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1264374 May 12 11:56 initrd-2.6.5-7.244-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82944 May 12 11:56 message -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108897 Dec 12 20:02 symvers-2.6.5-7.244-i386-default.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1827091 Dec 12 19:58 vmlinux-2.6.5-7.244-default.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 May 16 14:21 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.5-7.244-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1544369 Dec 12 19:44 vmlinuz-2.6.5-7.244-default ---------------------------------------------- Any help would be greatly appreciated. Maybe it's something simple here, I am new to using SuSE distrubutions. Regards, Warren