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Winfrid Tschiedel <Winfrid.Tschiedel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Winfrid Tschiedel <Winfrid.Tschiedel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
2007-10-25 01:33:17 MST ---
Hello Stefan,

This bug has a long history and during evaluation of openSUSE 10.3 
additional problems came up, so at some stage it was even not possible to
install a systems. 

So we should now concentrate on the problem -
grub should be able to write a bootrecord to a partition to 
support multiboot via chainloader. 

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_with_NVRAID_using_dmraid
6.5.1 Installing grub Method 1 describes how to write a bootrecord other than
MBR. This method works e.g. for ubuntu and redhat base distributions, but it
fails in case of openSUSE ( 279837#7 ). Which is the correct way to install a
bootrecord to dmraid controlled diskconfiguartion on NOVELL ? Please keep in
mind, that some SATA RAID contollers support only RAID disks.

Just a note, none of the distributions was able to write during installation a
bootrecord to a partition, all the time an MBR was written, but one could fix
the problem later with the above described method. At RedHat I have opened an
entry for this problem :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225551

I hope this helps.

Winfrid


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