Bug 391971

System with md raid1. Yast fails to propose a boot loader configuration. Warning that because it's a raid system and /boot is on raid, installing a boot loader may not be possible. Correct, but it *is* always possible on raid1 and has worked since suse 8.x.

When manually telling yast to install grub in mbr, the message "Error: Because of the partitioning, the boot loader cannot be installed properly". This is nonsense.

After this, yast shows in the installation summary the error as above, plus "ERROR: No proposal". At this stage, proposals are in the past and settings are given and known. Attachment #1 [details].

Before reboot during installation, grub installation fails with 

    GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

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grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd0,1)

Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition


Rootfs is /dev/md2, grub devices are

(fd0)   /dev/fd0
(hd0)   /dev/sda

md2 is made up of /dev/sda7, which is (hd0,6) not (hd0,1).

# cat /etc/grub.conf-yast
setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd0,1)
quit

Wrong partition number.
sda2 = (hd0,1) is the swap partition!!

menu.lst is correct:

title Pae -- openSUSE 11.0 - 2.6.25.3-2
    root (hd0,6)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.3-2-pae root=/dev/md2 sshpasswd=12345678 resume=/dev/sda2 splash=sil
ent showopts vga=0x317
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.25.3-2-pae

(Is there a reason why the temporary ssh installation password is permanently stored in menu.lst?)

Yast logs before intitial reboot in attachment #2 [details].