Promise 2300 & Grub

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Attempting to Install OpenSuse 11.0 on an AMD Workstation that contains a Promise FastTrack 2300.

The installation DVD is able to detect the Promise device and provides a recommended layout.

I deleted the default layout and create the following:

/dev/mapper/pdc_deeheacb 232.8G BIOS RAID
/dev/mapper/pdc_deeheacb_part1 232.8G DM RAID
/dev/sda 232.8G RAID pdc_deeheacb
/dev/sdb 232.8G RAID pdc_deeheacb
/dev/mapper/pdc_deeheacb_part5 203.9M /boot
/dev/mapper/pdc_deeheacb_part6 8.1G /
/dev/mapper/pdc_deeheacb_part7 9.1G swap
/dev/mapper/pdc_deeheacb_part8 154.0G /home
/dev/mapper/pdc_deeheacb_part9 20.4G /opt
/dev/mapper/pdc_deeheacb_part10 3.0G /tmp
/dev/mapper/pdc_deeheacb_part11 10.2G /usr
/dev/mapper/pdc_deeheacb_part12 27.0G /var

After this the installation continues without issue until the end…Yast error referencing something wrong with the boot loader.

Have attempted modifying the options available within the GRUB area, but nothing appears to be working.

Previously had Centos 5.2 loaded on the workstation, but wanted to load OpenSuse to prep for Linux+ exam.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Interesting setup; a single extended with all logicals? Have you ever set up grub on one of these type partitions before, with the same RAID level? Is using all logicals a requirement?

I have seen grub not like having /boot on RAID, but I can’t speak to your specific controller. And, on my software RAID setup, even though I have /boot in its own RAID 1 array, in menu.lst I need to use an individual partition device-name rather than the array. Also be sure that the syntax is correct in menu.lst and, if you were using the grub shell, that your install syntax was right (also look at /etc/grub.conf to see what YaST built for the grub setup command) - if /boot is on its own partition, then when grub looks at the partition it doesn’t see the /boot mount point (that’s on root), so for example, “kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz” becomes “kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz”.