Bug#463483: Install fails on dmraid device but installer claims success!

Package: grub-installer
Version: 1.27

I've used recent (late Dec/early Jan) daily builds of Lenny installer images on my dmraid system (Silicon Image 3112A "SATA RAID" controller), using "install dmraid=true". The installation works, including partitioning, but installing grub doesn't. The grub installer correctly identifies the root partition, and then claims to have successfully installed grub on the dmraid device, but on rebooting the previous boot loader is still intact, and there is no sign of grub.

I ended up installing grub4dos from Windows, and manually editing menu.lst to point to my Lenny installation.

Once rebooted into Linux, running grub-install from there fails properly, i.e. with an error message (I think it was "no such device" or similar).

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