Bug 385313

After the first step of installation, when all should be ok for the first reboot, you have to install the grub boot loader. In my case, I came into several issue that may be related to a general problem with the grub part of the setup.
For your info, I have on the sdb disk:
sdb1 : xp
sdb2 : vista
sdb4 : extended
sdb5 : linux
sdb6 : swap

* 1st try
- I have a list of the different Os that I can add to the grub boot menu.
Instead of acceting the proposed settings, I have choose the option to read the configuration from disk to see if all is ok. After I did this, the 'openSUSE', 'Floppy' and 'FailSafe' entry disappeared and I an entry listed as 'linux...<kernel version>-pae'. My others os entries appears (Xp and Vista).
when saving and rebooting, grub was not installed and I have my vista bootloader.

* 2nb try
- quite the same thing instead that this time I have this error message:
' An error occured during initrd creation
kernel image :/boo/vmlinuz-2.6.25-rc9-17-pae
initrt image :/boot/initrd-2.6.25-rc9-17-pae
root device  :/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST330083IAS_3NF18YD5 part5 (/dev/sdb5) (mounted on / as ext3)
Kernel modules : processor thermal clock scsi_mod libata sata_sil sata_promise pata_amd fah jbd mbcache ext3 edd sd_mod usbcore ohci_hcd uhci_hcd ehci_hcd ff_memless hid usbhid

Features : block usb resume.userspace resume.kernel
bootsplash: openSUSE (1024 x 768)
19652 blocks
kernel image :/boo/vmlinuz-2.6.25-rc9-17-pae
initrt image :/boot/initrd-2.6.25-rc9-17-pae
root device (/dev/sdb5) not found
read partition(): failed to open dev/sys/block at usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/bootloader/tools.pm line 280.

Followed by a messager saying the the brub installation was successfull.

- 3rd try
This time a news install, at the end, got the message above 'an error occured...' followed by :
' Error occured while installing grub
gnu grub version 0.97 (640 k lower / 3072 upper memory)
[minimal bash like line editing is supported for the first word, tab lists possible command completion. anywhere else tab lists the possible completion of a device/filename]
grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0)(hd0,4)
error 21: selected disk does not exist
grub`> quit

But, after a reboot, my grub bootloader appear! and it can even boot linux! Cool, I have then finished the setup.

At the end, I have try to use the grub option in yast to repair my grub menu and have my other os listed. After addind them I have set xp my default partition (sorry...) but when I have rebooted, the items are sroted the the way I have setup them in yast and the default entry is not even what I have choose in yast.