Problems with Grub, Dualbooting, and a software raid

Been searching through google and any forums i could find regarding a possible fix and can not find anything that works.
I have 2 Hard drives, First one is windows, second one is Archlinux.  They are setup through a software raid and i can not get grub to see them.
The error i Get is
Step 1.5 complete
Loading Grub Please Wait..
Error 21
I've used the supergrub disk to no avail.  (i had to load that onto a usb drive due to it not working on my usb cd drive)
my setup is SDA = windows drive
SDB = Archlinux
sdb1 = /               (100gb)
sdb2 = /home       (190gb)
sdb3 = swap         (6gb)
I've checked (and will post when i get back on other computer to try again) the menu.lst,
last time i checked that it looked to me like the sdb0 and sdb1 were not in there
so i added them, pretty sure it at least needed sdb1
(found it was on sdb1 by loading a live linux and using grub>find /boot/grub/stage1 to verify)
i've tried changing the settings of my raid in the bios, i have 3 options, Disabled (at which point i don't get any grub error messages just a non system disk error)
Raid - not how i normally run but tried it, no change (still error 21)
and IDE - how it normally runs, unsuccessfully
I'd really appreciate some help on this and thank you.

Here is the Menu.lst in /boot/grub
# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst
# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
# Linux Grub
# /dev/fd0 (fd0)
# /dev/sda (hd0)
# /dev/sda1 (hd0,0)
# /dev/sdb (hd1)
# /dev/sdb1 (hd1,0)
# /dev/sdb2 (hd1,1)
# /dev/sda3 (hd0,2)
# FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
# ----+--------------------------------------------
# 256 | 0x301=769 0x303=771 0x305=773 0x307=775
# 32K | 0x310=784 0x313=787 0x316=790 0x319=793
# 64K | 0x311=785 0x314=788 0x317=791 0x31A=794
# 16M | 0x312=786 0x315=789 0x318=792 0x31B=795
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# for more details and different resolutions see
# http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_Resolution
# general configuration:
timeout 5
default 0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/0e70c4ce-e3b3-42f8-8c2b-6c6414e$
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/0e70c4ce-e3b3-42f8-8c2b-6c6414e$
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img
# (2) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
and here is Device. map
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb
some more info from grub
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
(hd1,0)
Last edited by m3lkor (2009-03-15 19:14:07)

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