diff --git a/xCAT-SoftLayer/si-post-install/20all.makeinitrd b/xCAT-SoftLayer/si-post-install/20all.makeinitrd
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..761890045
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-SoftLayer/si-post-install/20all.makeinitrd
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# This SI post-install script is needed because the initrd that autoyast/kickstart/ubuntu builds when installing
+# sles/rh/ubuntu on the golden node may not have the drivers when that initrd runs on the node that is
+# being deployed with this image (specifically, drivers to be able to mount the disk).
+# So rebuild the initrd on the to-node after putting the image on the disk, but before rebooting.
+
+#todo: Make this script work on red hat by checking for dracut and using that if it exists.
+#		And do whatever is necessary on ubuntu.
+
+if [[ -f /sbin/dracut ]]; then
+	#todo: implement rh case using dracut
+	echo "Note: not regenerating the initrd, because dracut is not supported by this node yet."
+else
+	# suse/sles
+	echo "Running mkinitrd to regenerate the initrd with the drivers needed by this node:"
+	mkinitrd
+fi
diff --git a/xCAT-SoftLayer/si-post-install/20all.mkinitrd_for_suse11 b/xCAT-SoftLayer/si-post-install/20all.mkinitrd_for_suse11
deleted file mode 100755
index c18e454f8..000000000
--- a/xCAT-SoftLayer/si-post-install/20all.mkinitrd_for_suse11
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# This SI post-install script is needed because the initrd that autoyast builds when installing
-# sles on the golden node may not have the drivers when that initrd runs on the node that is
-# being deployed with this image (specifically, drivers to be able to mount the disk).
-# So rebuild the initrd on the to-node after putting the image on the disk, but before rebooting.
-
-#todo: this same issue could occur on other distros too.  Make this script work on red hat by
-#      checking for dracut and using that if it exists.
-
-mkinitrd
diff --git a/xCAT-SoftLayer/si-post-install/99all.killsyslog b/xCAT-SoftLayer/si-post-install/99all.killsyslog
index 7df9b06fe..348910189 100755
--- a/xCAT-SoftLayer/si-post-install/99all.killsyslog
+++ b/xCAT-SoftLayer/si-post-install/99all.killsyslog
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ if [ -f "/etc/SuSE-release" ];then
     fi
 fi
 
-# SI starts klogd in the chroot, but does not kill it
+# SI starts klogd in the chroot, but does not kill it.  Remove this line when SI fixes their bug.
 killall klogd
 
 # flush all write buffers, just in case SI can not umount /a
diff --git a/xCAT-SoftLayer/xCAT-SoftLayer.spec b/xCAT-SoftLayer/xCAT-SoftLayer.spec
index 77aceab5d..7ee7e06d1 100644
--- a/xCAT-SoftLayer/xCAT-SoftLayer.spec
+++ b/xCAT-SoftLayer/xCAT-SoftLayer.spec
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ BuildArch: noarch
 Requires: xCAT-server
 #Requires: xCAT-server  >= %{epoch}:%(cat Version|cut -d. -f 1,2)
 
+# perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker, perl-CPAN, perl-Test-Harness are only available in rhel.
+# When this rpm supports being installed in sles, need to add these to xcat-dep.
+# perl-SOAP-Lite is already in xcat-dep
 Requires: perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker perl-CPAN perl-Test-Harness perl-SOAP-Lite
 
 Provides: xCAT-SoftLayer = %{epoch}:%{version}
@@ -45,7 +48,7 @@ xCAT-SoftLayer provides Utilities to make xCAT work in a SoftLayer environment.
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/bin
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/share/xcat/install
-mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/install/postscripts
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/share/xcat/sysclone/postscripts
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/share/doc/packages/xCAT-SoftLayer
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/share/man/man1
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/share/doc/man1
@@ -56,8 +59,8 @@ cp -p -R share/xcat/install/* $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/share/xcat/install/
 cp -d bin/* $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/bin
 chmod 755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/bin/*
 
-cp -d postscripts/* $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/install/postscripts
-chmod 755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/install/postscripts/*
+cp -d postscripts/* $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/share/xcat/sysclone/postscripts
+chmod 755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/share/xcat/sysclone/postscripts/*
 
 cp -d si-post-install/* $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/share/xcat/sysclone/post-install
 chmod 755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/share/xcat/sysclone/post-install/*
@@ -77,4 +80,8 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %defattr(-,root,root)
 #%doc LICENSE.html
 %{prefix}
-/install/postscripts
+
+%post
+# We are shipping the postscripts in a sysclone dir and then copying them to /install/postscripts here,
+# because we want to allow base xcat to eventually ship them and not conflict on the file name/path
+cp -f /%{prefix}/share/xcat/sysclone/postscripts/* /install/postscripts