Hi I have a set of IWill opteron motherboards (IDE harddisk) which fails to boot from harddisk after a nfs based SLES9 installation. Somehow it seems the bootloader (Grub & Lilo) is not able to find the images -- so if Grub is selected as the bootloader, it hangs with a display of "GRUB" string and in case of Lilo - it hangs after displaying "L" . But I have able to install Arima opteron boards (SCSI harddisk) using the same installation server. The only successful and repeatable installation has been with Lilo and that too if only "minimal" installation option is selected. Actually the systems seem to be properly setup because i am able to boot the harddisk via "boot installed system" option of SLES9 CD1. I have attempted to repair bootloader using grub-install & SLES9 CD 1 repair tools but none of them seem to have any effect -- even y2log files does not show any errors. On suse portal, i found a reference to similar problem (http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/04/fhassel_grub_scsi.html) but it is w.r.t to SCSI hard disk. I am able to perform CD install on the node so I am not really not sure what is causing Grub to hang with display of "Grub" and similarly Lilo with "L". If any of the members have any suggestions/pointers - please reply... thanks in advance kanji __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com