hmm. it seems profile data created by "clone this system" checkbox was the main problem. for some reason mbr was set in it (even though bootsector was chosen during the initial installation). changing it to 'boot' allowed grub installation to succeed. given that lvm setup from that profile was also broken... well, i will not use it anymore ;) ps. this is x86_64 version, in case there are any significant differences Rich wrote:
i am trying to autoinstall sles10 with /boot on an md raid. autoinst profile was generated within yast from an installed system, but it fails to install grub correctly. error message shows that stage2 installation (setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2) is tried first for hd(0) , which fails, then it succeeds for hd(1,0) and hd(0,0). ... -- Rich