I've installed RH9 on a Dell 600SC server and updated all the
packages. However, no matter what I do, I cannot get the server to
boot from the hard disk on a cold boot. I chose the GRUB boot loader
during the installation, and created a boot disk (thankfully), but no
matter what I do, it will not find the hard disk on boot up. So, I
booted from the floppy, got into the Lilo configuration utility under
KDE, and set it to boot using Lilo instead of GRUB. When I warm boot,
no problem, however, when I cold boot, it can't find the hard disks.
What gives? Here's the contents of my lilo.conf file:

boot="/dev/hda"
prompt
timeout="50"
message=/boot/message
root=/dev/hda2
default=2.4.20-20.9
linear

image="/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9"
label="2.4.20-20.9"
root="/dev/hda2"
read-only
initrd="/boot/initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img"

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8
label="2.4.20-8"
root=/dev/hda2
read-only
initrd="/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img"

image=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
label="Linux_Compiled"
root=/dev/hda2
read-only
optional

under the Storage Devices section, it has /dev/hda1 as the "/boot"
partition and /dev/hda2 as "/" partition.


the grub.conf file looks like this:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-20.9)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img


I'm somewhat new to this, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dave