diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/compute.sles10.ppc64.exlist b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/compute.sles10.ppc64.exlist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fb4fb072b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/compute.sles10.ppc64.exlist
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+./usr/share/man*
+./usr/share/locale*
+./usr/share/i18n*
+./var/cache/yum*
+./usr/share/doc*
+./usr/share/gnome*
+./usr/share/zoneinfo*
+./usr/share/cracklib*
+./usr/share/info*
+./usr/share/omf*
+./usr/lib/locale*
+./usr/lib/perl5*
+./boot*
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/compute.sles10.ppc64.pkglist b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/compute.sles10.ppc64.pkglist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dd6aa5df2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/compute.sles10.ppc64.pkglist
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+aaa_base
+bash 
+nfs-utils
+stunnel
+dhcpcd 
+kernel-ppc64
+openssh
+procps
+psmisc
+wget
+vim
+sysconfig
+syslog-ng
+klogd
+dbus
+dbus-1-64bit
+hal
+hal-64bit
+pam-modules-64bit
+pam-64bit
+resmgr
+resmgr-64bit
+
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/compute.sles10.ppc64.postinstall b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/compute.sles10.ppc64.postinstall
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bc50c8b68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/compute.sles10.ppc64.postinstall
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#-- Do not remove following line if you want to make use of CVS version tracking
+#-- $Id: compute.postinstall,v 1.21 2008/09/04 12:05:45 sikorsky Exp $
+#-- jurij.sikorsky@t-systems.cz
+#--
+#-- this script is run after all packages from $profile.pkglist are installed
+#-- 
+#-- it gets these arguments:
+#-- 
+#-- $1 = install root (chroot directory for profile)
+#-- $2 = OS version
+#-- $3 = architecture
+#-- $4 = profile name
+#-- $5 = work dir (where genimage is located)
+#-- 
+#-- 
+installroot=$1
+osver=$2
+arch=$3
+profile=$4
+workdir=$5
+
+#-- Example how /etc/fstab can be automatically generated during image generation:
+cp $installroot/etc/fstab $installroot/etc/fstab.prev
+cat <<END >$installroot/etc/fstab
+proc            /proc    proc   rw 0 0
+sysfs           /sys     sysfs  rw 0 0
+devpts          /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
+${profile}_${arch}      /        tmpfs  rw 0 1
+none            /tmp     tmpfs  defaults,size=10m 0 2
+none            /var/tmp tmpfs  defaults,size=10m 0 2
+END
+
+#-- Example of booted image versioning
+#-- We want to know, with what configuration (version of the image) each node was booted.
+#-- Hence, we keep image definition files and postscripts in CVS. During image generation we create file /etc/IMGVERSION and fill it with CVS "$Id$" of files with image definition (.pkglist, .exlist, .repolist, .postinstall). Then, during boot, each  "CVS enabled" postscript (see /install/postscripts/cvs_template.sh and /install/postscripts/cvs_template.pl) adds one line to /etc/IMGVERSION. Then you can determine in any time what image you are running and what postscipts in which versions were run.
+#cat /dev/null > $installroot/etc/IMGVERSION
+#for ext in pkglist exlist postinstall repolist; do
+#  [ -r $workdir/$profile.$ext ] && cat $workdir/$profile.$ext | grep -E '^[[:space:]]*#.*[[:space:]]\$Id' >> $installroot/etc/IMGVERSION
+#done
+
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/genimage b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/genimage
index 8741324ac..a2a20accb 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/genimage
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/genimage
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ unless ($onlyinitrd) {
    open($fd,">>","$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/etc/fstab");
    print $fd "#Dummy fstab for rpm postscripts to see\n";
    close($fd);
-   if($osver eq "sles11") {#zypper in SLES11 is different
+   if($osver =~ /sles11/) {#zypper in SLES11 is different
 	   my $rootimg_dir="$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg";
 	   if(-e "$rootimg_dir/etc/zypp/repos.d/$osver.repo") {
 		   system("rm -rf $rootimg_dir/etc/zypp/repos.d/$osver.repo");
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ unless ($onlyinitrd) {
 
    #for extra packages
    if ($pkgnames) {
-     if($osver eq "sles11") {	#SLES11
+     if($osver =~ /sles11/) {	#SLES11
      	system("zypper -R $installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/ ar file:$srcdir_otherpkgs otherpkg");
      }else {
         system("zypper -R $installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/ sa file:$srcdir_otherpkgs");
@@ -159,10 +159,10 @@ unless ($onlyinitrd) {
    #$yumcmd .= "install ";
    #mkpath("$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/var/lib/yum");
    my $yumcmd;
-   if($osver eq "sles11") {
+   if($osver =~ /sles11/) {
    	$yumcmd = "YAST_IS_RUNNING=\"instsys\" zypper -R $installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/ install -l "; #add -l for SLES11
    }else {
-        $yumcmd = "zypper -R $installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/ install";
+        $yumcmd = "zypper -R $installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/ install ";
    }
    my $pkglist= get_pkglist_file_name($customdir);
    if (!$pkglist) {
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ unless ($onlyinitrd) {
 
    if (!$pkglist) {
       print "Unable to find package list for $profile!";
-      return 1;
+      exit 1;
    }
 
    open($yumconfig,"<","$pkglist");
@@ -235,19 +235,25 @@ sub getlibs {
 sub mkinitrd {
 	mkpath("/tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/bin");
 	if($basekernelver eq $kernelver) {
-		rename(<$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/boot/vmlinuz*>,"$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/kernel");
-	}
+                if (-f "$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/boot/vmlinuz-$kernelver") {
+		    rename(<$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/boot/vmlinuz*>,"$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/kernel");
+	         } elsif (-f "$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/boot/vmlinux-$kernelver"){
+                    rename(<$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/boot/vmlinux*>,"$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/kernel");
+                 }
+        }
 	else {
-		if(-r "$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/boot/vmlinuz-$kernelver") {
-			rename("$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/boot/vmlinuz-$kernelver","$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/kernel");
-        } elsif(-r "/boot/vmlinuz-$kernelver") {
-			copy("/boot/vmlinuz-$kernelver","$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/kernel");
-		} elsif(-r "/boot/vmlinux-$kernelver") {#for SLES10,11
+	    if(-r "$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/boot/vmlinuz-$kernelver") {
+		rename("$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/boot/vmlinuz-$kernelver","$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/kernel");
+            } elsif(-r "$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/boot/vmlinux-$kernelver") {
+                 rename("$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/boot/vmlinux-$kernelver","$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/kernel");
+            }  elsif(-r "/boot/vmlinuz-$kernelver") {
+		copy("/boot/vmlinuz-$kernelver","$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/kernel");
+	    } elsif(-r "/boot/vmlinux-$kernelver") {#for SLES10,11
 			copy("/boot/vmlinux-$kernelver","$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/kernel");
-		}
-		else {
-			xdie("Cannot read /boot/vmlinuz-$kernelver");
-		}
+	    }
+	    else {
+		xdie("Cannot read /boot/vmlinuz-$kernelver");
+	    }
 	}
 	symlink("bin","/tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/sbin");
 	mkpath("/tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/usr/bin");
@@ -258,8 +264,8 @@ sub mkinitrd {
 	mkpath("/tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/tmp");
 	mkpath("/tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/var/run");
 	mkpath("/tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/lib64/firmware");
-	if($osver eq "sles11" && $arch eq "ppc64") {#SLES11 for Power6
-		mkpath("/tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/lib64/power6");
+	if((($osver =~ /sles11/) || ($osver =~ /sles10/)) && $arch eq "ppc64") {#SLES11 for Power6
+	    mkpath("/tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/lib64/power6");
 	}
 	mkpath("/tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/lib/power6");#SLES10
 	mkpath("/tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/lib/mkinitrd/bin");
@@ -571,6 +577,7 @@ sub generic_post { #This function is meant to leave the image in a state approxi
    open($cfgfile,">>","$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/etc/securetty");
    print $cfgfile "ttyS0\n";
    print $cfgfile "ttyS1\n";
+   print $cfgfile "console\n";
    close($cfgfile);
    my @passwd;
    open($cfgfile,"<","$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/etc/passwd");
@@ -620,7 +627,7 @@ sub generic_post { #This function is meant to leave the image in a state approxi
       system("sed -i '".'s/^\(TARGETS = .*\)$/\1 gettyset/'."' $installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/etc/init.d/.depend.start");
       system("ln -s ../gettyset $installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/etc/init.d/rc3.d/S60gettyset");
    }
-   if($osver eq "sles11") {#for sles11
+   if(($osver =~ /sles11/) || ($osver =~ /sles10/)) {#for sles11,sles10
 	   rename(<$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/boot/vmlinux*>,"$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/kernel");
    }else {
    	   rename(<$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/rootimg/boot/vmlinuz*>,"$installroot/netboot/$osver/$arch/$profile/kernel");
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/service.sles10.ppc64.exlist b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/service.sles10.ppc64.exlist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..23963520f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/service.sles10.ppc64.exlist
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+./usr/share/man*
+./usr/share/locale*
+./usr/share/i18n*
+./var/cache/yum*
+./usr/share/doc*
+./usr/share/gnome*
+./usr/share/zoneinfo*
+./usr/share/cracklib*
+./usr/share/info*
+./usr/share/omf*
+./usr/lib/locale*
+./boot*
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/service.sles10.ppc64.pkglist b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/service.sles10.ppc64.pkglist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d4211538d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/service.sles10.ppc64.pkglist
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+kernel-ppc64 
+udev
+sysconfig
+aaa_base
+syslogd
+klogd
+device-mapper
+bash
+stunnel
+nfs-utils
+ksh
+syslog-ng
+openssh
+openssh-askpass
+busybox
+vim
+rpm
+bind
+bind-utils
+dhcp
+dhcpcd
+dhcp-server
+dhcp-client
+dhcp-relay
+bzip2
+rootfiles
+cron
+wget
+vsftpd
+util-linux
+module-init-tools
+mkinitrd
+apache2
+apache2-prefork
+perl-Bootloader
+psmisc
+procps
+resmgr
+dbus
+dbus-1-64bit
+hal
+hal-64bit
+pam-modules-64bit
+pam-64bit
+resmgr
+resmgr-64bit
+timezone
+
+
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/service.sles10.ppc64.postinstall b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/service.sles10.ppc64.postinstall
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d12333066
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/service.sles10.ppc64.postinstall
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#-- Do not remove following line if you want to make use of CVS version tracking
+#-- $Id: compute.postinstall,v 1.21 2008/09/04 12:05:45 sikorsky Exp $
+#-- jurij.sikorsky@t-systems.cz
+#--
+#-- this script is run after all packages from $profile.pkglist are installed
+#-- 
+#-- it gets these arguments:
+#-- 
+#-- $1 = install root (chroot directory for profile)
+#-- $2 = OS version
+#-- $3 = architecture
+#-- $4 = profile name
+#-- $5 = work dir (where genimage is located)
+#-- 
+#-- 
+installroot=$1
+osver=$2
+arch=$3
+profile=$4
+workdir=$5
+
+#-- Example how /etc/fstab can be automatically generated during image generation:
+cp $installroot/etc/fstab $installroot/etc/fstab.prev
+cat <<END >$installroot/etc/fstab
+proc            /proc    proc   rw 0 0
+sysfs           /sys     sysfs  rw 0 0
+devpts          /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
+${profile}_${arch}      /        tmpfs  rw 0 1
+none            /tmp     tmpfs  defaults,size=10m 0 2
+none            /var/tmp tmpfs  defaults,size=10m 0 2
+END
+
+#Prevent DHCP from starting up until xcatd has had a chance to configure it:
+chroot $installroot chkconfig dhcpd off
+chroot $installroot chkconfig dhcrelay off
+
+#turn on some services
+chroot $installroot chkconfig dbus on
+chroot $installroot chkconfig boot.localnet on
+chroot $installroot chkconfig haldaemon on
+chroot $installroot chkconfig network on
+chroot $installroot chkconfig syslog on
+chroot $installroot chkconfig apache2 on
+
+#export /install as read-only
+echo '/install *(ro,no_root_squash,sync,fsid=13)' > $installroot/etc/exports
+
+#uncomment out the cons line in etc/inittab
+sed -i 's/^\#\(\s\)*cons/cons/' $installroot/etc/inittab
+
+#-- Example of booted image versioning
+#-- We want to know, with what configuration (version of the image) each node was booted.
+#-- Hence, we keep image definition files and postscripts in CVS. During image generation we create file /etc/IMGVERSION and fill it with CVS "$Id$" of files with image definition (.pkglist, .exlist, .repolist, .postinstall). Then, during boot, each  "CVS enabled" postscript (see /install/postscripts/cvs_template.sh and /install/postscripts/cvs_template.pl) adds one line to /etc/IMGVERSION. Then you can determine in any time what image you are running and what postscipts in which versions were run.
+#cat /dev/null > $installroot/etc/IMGVERSION
+#for ext in pkglist exlist postinstall repolist; do
+#  [ -r $workdir/$profile.$ext ] && cat $workdir/$profile.$ext | grep -E '^[[:space:]]*#.*[[:space:]]\$Id' >> $installroot/etc/IMGVERSION
+#done
+