diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/genimage b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/genimage
index b06039553..4670db4a7 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/genimage
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/genimage
@@ -1308,7 +1308,12 @@ EOMS
    close($inifile);
    open($inifile,">"."/tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/bin/netstart");
    print $inifile "#!/bin/bash \n";
-   print $inifile "dhcpcd \${1} -p\n";
+   if ($osver_host == 10) {
+      print $inifile "dhcpcd \${1}\n";
+   } else { # for sles11 or higher
+      # -p is used to keep the network connection during the shutdown. Used for nfs-based statelite shutdown
+      print $inifile "dhcpcd \${1} -p\n";
+   }
 
    #-- Bring other NICs up in /bin/netstart in initrd for NIC failover
    foreach (split /,/,$othernics) {
@@ -1570,6 +1575,14 @@ sub generic_post { # This function is meant to leave the image in a state approx
 		print $cfgfile "# Short-Description: gettyset\n";
 		print $cfgfile "# Description:\n";
 		print $cfgfile "### END INIT INFO\n";
+		print $cfgfile "VERS=`grep VERSION /etc/SuSE-release`\n";
+		print $cfgfile "if [ -n \"\$VERS\" ]; then\n";
+		print $cfgfile "  VERNUM=`echo \$VERS|awk -F= \'{print \$2}\'|sed -e \'s/ //g\'`\n";
+		print $cfgfile "fi\n";
+		print $cfgfile "if [ \"\$VERNUM\" -gt 10 ]; then\n";
+		print $cfgfile "  exit\n";
+		print $cfgfile "fi\n";
+		print $cfgfile "\n";
 		print $cfgfile "for i in `cat /proc/cmdline`; do\n";
 		print $cfgfile '  KEY=`echo $i|cut -d= -f 1`' . "\n";
 		print $cfgfile "  if [ \"\$KEY\" == \"console\" -a \"\$i\" != \"console=tty0\" ]; then\n";