shaab mohagir wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My problem started when I tried to install SuSE 9.0 on a Dell
> PowerEdge server 2300, Yast2 kept saying "no hard disks are found...."
> The drives are SCSI and SuSE 8.0 recognize them with no problems, in
> fact I have another server that works just fine with the same h/w.
>
> Here is what I found, after digging around on the internet I learened
> that in SuSE9 the default boot loaded is set to GRUB, and that GRUB
> fails to identify SCSI drives, on the other hand LILO does, so the
> advise was to make LILO as the default bootloader!
>
> How can I make LILO the default boot loadee when I don't even have
> anything on the hard drives (i.e. clean install, no new hard disks
> with no OS).

Haven't tried it on 9, but if click on the Booting (??) entry
of the main install page (toward the bottom) I think you
can select your boot loader of choice. If not, try removing
grub from the SW selection and adding just LILO and see if
the Booting section now reports that it will use LILO.

>
>
> Thanks for your help.
> mFH